Posted on 03/14/2023 5:37:18 PM PDT by marshmallow
A non-profit foundation established by lay Catholics has furnished US bishops with data linking priests with online gay dating services, the Washington Post reports.
The Post, in a critical investigative story, reports that the Colorado-based group, Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal (CLCR) “has spent millions of dollars to buy mobile app tracking data that identified priests who used gay dating and hookup apps and then shared it with bishops around the country.”
But the president of the foundation, Jayd Henricks, a former official of the US bishops’ conference, explains that CLCR has much broader purposes and programs, and the delivery of data from services such as Grindr was only a part of its services. His explanation, in an article for First Things, provides a very different picture of the group’s activities.
CLCR was founded in 2019, by lay Catholics who were appalled by the scandal centered on former cardinal Theodore McCarrick. The founders of CLCR, Henricks says, “explored ways in which the laity might better assist bishops to identify healthy environments for priests and models to allow parishes and dioceses to flourish, while helping to spot dangers that could lead to more scandal and heartache for the Church down the line.”
The founders quickly settled on a data-driven approach. “After all,” Henricks reasons, “data is used by all major corporations, so why not the Church?” The group began to analyze the available data on the reasons why young Catholics leave the Church, the spiritual formation of young seminarians, and the liturgical experiences of Catholic parishes.
In collecting this data, however, the CLCR also discovered and studied how clerics were involved in “hookup apps,” and made their conclusions available to bishops. That study, which the group shared with bishops, came to public attention in 2021 when Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, the......
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What if a priest had his identity stolen?
I’ve had several emails from pastors who asked for gift cards for the google store.
Because that’s what the apostles would’ve done when not preaching the ‘Good News of the Kingdom of God’, hooked up with local men for sexual encounters./sarc
I found this article interesting on the same subject:
Only Catholics will clean our house. All others are also sinners but with nothing to add beyond hypocrisy.
Many gay men are also despicable pedophiles and all gay priests should be booted from the church.
Divulging online postings or ‘habits’ is something that should be done only to conservatives. Ask WaPo’s Lorenz Taylor. She can explain the logic to you.
Simple solution; dissolve Vatican II and reinstate TLM strictly by booting all homos.
Meaning the Washington Post, which in 1971 did the publication of top-secret information in the Pentagon Papers, and recently revealed the name of the woman behind @LibsofTikTok, a popular conservative Twitter account, now opposes the exposure of clergy immorally violating vows, under the premise that portrayed the group as an initiative targeted against homosexual priests (which for WaPo would be evil) and despite what CLCR stated.
I can interpret this a couple of different ways.
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