Or it may be that gay priests will only feel secure talking freely with another gay, since they share the same identity and life view.
But to deny it in the face of supporting evidence, is short-sighted.
I worry more about the silence. Who's speaking out? Burke. Athanasius Schneider. Brandmüller. Mueller, on and off, when he locates his backbone.
Strickland, somewhere way out there in the middle of the sagebrush in Texas, and Gacida, retired, Corpus Christi. Yay Texas.
There should be dozens, hundreds of them bellowing like Savonarola by now. The silence is heart-crushing.