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Look, I agree that homosexuals have an agenda -- which is currently being implemented -- to undermine the Catholic Church.

But I am annoyed by Catholics that don't want to see that this "priest" was a active homosexual. To ignore or deny it is dangerous. The reason? Well according to the Sacramento Bee there is a "movement afoot to canonize Father Mychal Judge".

I got this information from a Catholic weblog called bettnet.com - very reputable:

May 31, 2002 http://bettnet.dyndns.org/news/arc4-2002.html

There is a move afoot to canonize Father Mychal Judge, the courageous priest who died at the World Trade Center. He was evidently gay which is probably an impediment to his canonization. Just because someone does something valorous or courageous does not exempt them from notation of sinful behavior in other aspects of their life in the canonization process. He may be a hero, but he's probably not a saint, unless by heroic virtue he was resisting the temptation to homosexual inclinations and activity. That is for the Church to decide.
Here's the web site promoting the cause: Saint Mychal ; and here's a story on it in the Sacramento Bee.

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This is from Rod Dreher at NRO The Corner:
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/2002_06_30_corner-archive.asp

Here's an essay that's been making the conservative Catholic rounds, asserting that the hero priest of 9/11, Fire Department of New York chaplain Mychal Judge, was not a homosexual. The author, Dennis Lynch, says he and others who knew Fr. Judge for some time never had the slightest hint that he was gay. That may be true, but that proves nothing. In fact, a number of people close to Judge, including former FDNY Commissioner Thomas von Essen, have said Fr. Judge came out to them (it seems beyond doubt that Fr. Judge affiliated himself with the dissenting gay Catholic group Dignity). Others close to him - like his brother Franciscan Brian Jordan - say they never knew about his private life. One friend of the late priest's said Judge was careful not to out himself to friends and congregants he figured might be upset by this knowledge. Fr. Judge's homosexuality does not take away from the fact that he did a world of good for the men and women of New York, and that he died heroically. Nor does his good work posthumously baptize his dissent from Church teaching, or prove the Church wrong, as some gay activists would have it. All can agree he was a flawed but good-hearted man who was loving, and was loved, and who died on a mission of mercy. Beyond that, I say it's up to God.