Catholic Officials on Edge After Reports of Priests Using Grindr (gay hookup app)

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Last edited Fri Aug 20, 2021, 03:23 PM - Edit history (1)

Catholic Officials on Edge After Reports of Priests Using Grindr
A conservative Catholic media organization, The Pillar, has published several reports claiming the use of dating apps at several churches and the Vatican.


The reports hit the Roman Catholic Church in rapid succession: Analyses of cellphone data obtained by a conservative Catholic blog seemed to show priests at multiple levels of the Catholic hierarchy in both the United States and the Vatican using the gay hookup app Grindr.

The first report, published late last month, led to the resignation of Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, the former general secretary of the U.S. bishops’ conference. The second, posted online days later, made claims about the use of Grindr by unnamed people in unspecified rectories in the Archdiocese of Newark. The third, published days after that, claimed that in 2018 at least 32 mobile devices emitted dating app data signals from within areas of Vatican City that are off-limits to tourists.

The reports by the blog, The Pillar, have unnerved the leadership of the American Catholic Church and have introduced a potentially powerful new weapon into the culture war between supporters of Pope Francis and his conservative critics: cellphone data, which many users assume to be unavailable to the general public.

“When there is reporting out there that claims to expose activity like this in parishes around the country and also on Vatican grounds, that is a five-alarm fire for church officials, there is no doubt about it,” said John Gehring, the Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, a progressive advocacy group.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/nyregion/pillar-grindr-catholic-church.html

[Coventina]

1. The Pillar? Sounds kind of phallic to me.....

My reaction?

Go get it, guys!!!!



on edit: I'm not a Roman Catholic, never have been, but the idea of the celibate clergy has never made sense to me.

[Glorfindel]

3. It doesn't seem to make sense to the "celibate" clergy, either, Coventina!

I agree with you totally...go get it, guys, just make sure "it's" of legal age.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. As long as it's between consenting adults ...

Granted, given history that's a stretch, but assuming it is ... who CARES?

Apparently some of them do.

BTW, here's the link w/o all that tracking crap tacked on:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/nyregion/pillar-grindr-catholic-church.html

[gay texan]

4. Not quite sure what to think about this

On the one hand, I know far too well what it's like to be closeted and trying your best to act straight. What it's like to have a same sex hookup under the radar and the guilt you feel afterwards because you enjoyed it so much. I'd be lying to you if I said I hadn't entertained thoughts of suicide back in those days.

On the other hand some of these people are the ones who try their best to make life hard for LGBTQ folks while they indulge in the "forbidden fruit"

I'm trying my best to feel pity for these people. I really am.

[Withywindle]

5. Watch and see

how much more upset they are about hookups with consenting adults than they are about priests who abuse children.