When many Catholics look at the photo of the priest dancing with the woman next to photos of Pope Leo and his two secretaries, what do they think? While one Catholic woman might ask another woman, “Do you think that priest is involved with that woman?” how many Catholics might question the relationship of the perceived three homosexual clerics on the right? I would venture to say, “Less than one percent of Catholics would question the nature of the relationship of the Pope with his two secretaries.” Why? Because most Catholics are faithful heterosexuals who want to believe that the Pope, cardinals, bishops, priests, and seminarians are all chaste heterosexuals like themselves.
It’s one thing for two people to dance with one another. It’s quite another thing for them to live together. Do you think parishioners might question if the priest and the woman in the above photo were cohabiting? If that were the case, might some Catholics write to the bishop asserting that their living arrangement was scandalous? Yet, why do those same Catholics not question the living arrangement of Pope Leo, Msgr. Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga, and Father Marco Billeri? Are only heterosexuals tempted? Do high gay sexual partnering rates also apply to homosexual Catholic clergy?
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Just as I was innocently photographed with a woman who asked me to dance with her at a wedding I celebrated for a former altar boy, I would like to believe that Pope Leo’s relationship with his two secretaries was and is no more than platonic. However, knowing of numerous cases where homosexual bishops and priests engage in sexual relations in episcopal residences and rectories, I cannot help but object as to why many Catholics - women more often than men - never question the living arrangements of their homosexual clergy whom they want to believe are heterosexual and celibate.
It’s amazing how Catholics are willing to accept lies told by their homosexual clergy. Just four months after Jorge Bergoglio was elected and chose the name Francis, he was flying back to Rome from Brazil when a reporter asked him about his close friend, Monsignor Battista Ricca. When the reporter inquired about Ricca’s promiscuous homosexual behavior (not his homosexual orientation), which involved being reported for cohabiting in Paraguay with a Swiss lover, Patrick Haari; getting caught “in the act” with a young gay prostitute in an elevator; and getting beaten up in a park frequented by homosexuals, Francis responded by saying, “I conducted a preliminary investigation and didn’t find anything.” Isn’t this what happens in most Vos Estis investigations when one homosexual bishop investigates another homosexual bishop and rules that the allegations were all found to be “unsubstantiated?” If Francis also added, “Who am I to judge?” when asked about Ricca, might it be because Francis himself engaged in homosexual behavior with vulnerable seminarians, as he was reported to have done by two independent sources?
Four years into Francis’ pontificate, it was reported that the police officers of the Corps of Gendarmerie raided a drug-fueled gay orgy inside Vatican City that was hosted by Monsignor Luigi Capozzi, who was to be ordained a bishop the following day. Had Capozzi not been caught “in the act” and taken to the hospital for having overdosed on cocaine, he would have been ordained a bishop and might even be a cardinal today.
This news of the clerical gay orgy did not surprise me for two reasons. One, I lived in Rome for four years and heard stories of how Swiss Guards were propositioned for sex by members of the Roman Curia. Two, I learned of an earlier orgy that took place in Springfield, Illinois, at which then-Bishop George Lucas and Father Peter Harman were reported for engaging in anal sex in the presence of other gay priests, seminarians, and laymen. A 2006 “internal investigation” orchestrated by Lucas covered up the orgy that was originally uncovered in 2004 by Roman Catholic Faithful founder Stephen Brady. Like most gay clergy who suffer no consequences for their actions, Lucas was promoted to Archbishop of Omaha; Harman was appointed the rector of the North American College in Rome; and Msgr. Kevin Vann, also in attendance at the orgy, was later named the Bishop of Orange.
After Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, the former General Secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), attempted to sue Grindr for releasing information about the multiple sexual encounters he had using their gay App, it is clear that the greatest fear gay popes, bishops, and priests have is being outed. If a straight cleric reports sexual predation or consensual homosexual clerical misconduct, he is perceived as a threat who needs to be neutralized, or in some cases even murdered, like Monsignor Francis J. O’Connor, Buffalo Father Joe Moreno, Albany Father John Minkler, and Madison Father Alfred Kunz.
A lesser punishment for addressing this problem that St. Peter Damien confronted almost a thousand years ago in his treatise, The Book of Gomorrah, is to be suspended like former Richmond Father Mark White or Washington Father Michael Briese; to be removed from one’s diocese like Bishop Joseph Strickland; or to be excommunicated like Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. What these four clerics all have in common is that they are heterosexually oriented men who spoke out against clerical sexual predation and misconduct on the part of homosexual clergy.
Just as Catholics did not want to address the homosexual orientation and behavior of Pope Francis, so too do they want to bury their heads in the sand when it comes to addressing the sexual orientation and behavior of Pope Leo. Augustinians for a long time have been perceived to be populated mainly by homosexuals, similar to the Jesuits. This perception was confirmed recently by a former straight Augustinian seminarian who reported being dismissed after reporting directly to then-Father Robert Prevost that he was sexually assaulted by an older gay seminarian in the Augustinian House of Formation in Washington, D.C. Just as seeing a Texas bishop in a Dallas gay bar would lead one to conclude that the bishop is gay, the fact that Prevost recommended the homosexual seminarian for ordination after being accused of abusing a heterosexual student would lead many to assume that Prevost is homosexual.
Because of the extremely close nature of the relationship between a bishop and his priest-secretary, homosexual bishops appoint homosexual priests as their secretaries. For example, homosexual San Francisco Archbishop John Quinn made then-Father Robert McElroy his secretary in 1982, and later his vicar general in 1995. Homosexual Richmond Bishop Barry Knestout served as ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s secretary beginning in 2003, before being made his vicar general in 2007. Homosexual Cardinal Donald Wuerl appointed disgraced Father Adam Park to be his priest-secretary before having him appointed the vice rector of the North American College in Rome, where he was reported for preying on vulnerable seminarians. In my own Altoona-Johnstown Diocese, homosexual Bishop Joseph Adamev made Father Dennis Boggs his priest-secretary and later the chancellor. Like Father Marco Balleri, Pope Leo’s new secretary, who worked as an engineer before being ordained, Boggs worked as a radio announcer before entering formation to become a priest. If one were to ask, “What proof do you have that Father Boggs was a homosexual?” I would answer, “It was not just because he didn’t seem to have any girlfriends when he was working before entering the seminary; it was because after Adamec made him the chancellor and appointed him as pastor of the largest parish in Johnstown, Boggs left the priesthood and “married” a male friend.
Lay Catholics need to understand that a priest-secretary to a bishop is not like a secretary who works in an office for an executive. A priest-secretary who works, eats, and lives with a bishop knows all of his secrets. Consequently, a homosexual bishop, or Pope like Leo, would never appoint a straight priest to serve as his secretary. Many people fail to realize that Rimaycuna, who was a 17-year-old diocesan seminarian when he met then-Bishop Robert Prevost, did not come to Rome to work and live with Prevost only after his papal election. Rimaycuna, who developed a “very close” relationship with Prevost in Chiclayo, followed Prevost to Rome when he was appointed Prefect for the Dicastery of Bishops in January 2023, more than two years before his papal election in May 2025.
Knowing how homosexual bishops, and even popes, surround themselves with homosexual clerics, it follows that Leo would “stack the deck” of the October 7-14 Vatican meeting to discuss Amoris laetitia with homosexual cardinals like Jean-Claude Hollerich, Blase Cupich, Robert McElroy, Joseph Tobin, Víctor Manuel Fernández, and others. Any Catholic who questions my assessment of the homosexual orientation of Pope Leo and those with whom he is closely associated should explain why Pope Leo has appointed countless pro-LGBTQ homosexual clergy as bishops, archbishops, and cardinals in his capacity as the Prefect for the Dicastery of Bishops, and now as Pope.
Homosexual popes and bishops not only cover up sexual predation and homosexual misconduct by fellow gay clergy (like Msgr. Battista Ricca), but they are also known for being particularly insensitive to sexually abused women. The fact that Pope Leo has yet to respond to appeals for justice from nuns who reported being raped by Father Marco Rupnik, and abused laywomen like Lisa Roers who appealed in vain both to him and to Pope Francis, demonstrates the grave shortcomings of electing a homosexual as pope.
Catholics who question the validity of my concern need to speak with a straight priest who left the priesthood after being assigned to a parish where the pastor frequently “entertained” his gay boyfriends in the rectory. When the good-looking straight priest asked to be transferred, the homosexual bishop sent him to a parish where his new pastor was constantly trying to get him into his bed. Of course, none of this was ever made known to parishioners, and the straight priest who eventually left was unjustly disparaged by some Catholic laity for having abandoned his priestly vocation. In an effort to cover up what really led the straight priest to leave, Pope Francis signed his laicization request in record time, just as Pope Leo rushed to laicize Msgr. Ricardo Coronado Arrascue, who accused him of covering up abuse and orchestrating his removal.
