[MrChips]

And you “would expect” that he felt he had the need to? Some of those poems and letters, personal expressions of love, are exquisitely beautiful. I try not to make windows into other men’s souls, especially men who are dead. I just agree or disagree, and in the latter case, I tolerate, and appreciate them for who there were.

[Arthur McGowan]

Of course he would feel the need to repent. He wasn’t an illiterate Catholic of the so-called 20th Century.

[Antoninus]

Some of those poems and letters, personal expressions of love, are exquisitely beautiful.

Yes? And did any of them mention sodomy explicitly, by chance?

I try not to make windows into other men’s souls, especially men who are dead.

Uh, you just did that. You basically tagged him with a vice that his soul is, no doubt, deeply ashamed of now.

Pray for him, in case he's still in Purgatory. I just did.