THE COLOMBIAN CONNECTION
Seminarians sex trafficked to Buffalo
Records have all been destroyed to cover up evidence involving the systematic sex trafficking of Colombian seminarians to U.S. seminaries, including Christ the King in East Aurora, NY, and Pope John Paul II Residence for college seminarians studying at Canisius College in Buffalo.
The scheme was orchestrated by a ring of predatory clergy, including then-Buffalo Bishop Henry Mansell; Msgr. Joseph Gatto, Rector of Christ the King Seminary; and Msgr. Paul Burkhard, Assistant to the Bishop for Priestly Formation.
Approximately 15 Colombian seminarians were sex trafficked in 1998 and 1999. Seminarians were screened in Colombia by homosexual psychologist Victor Hugo Londoño Rengifo. The seminarians were photographed from the front, side, and back. None of the candidates who were chosen to study in the United States were overweight or unattractive.
Of the some 15 seminarians who arrived in 1998-99, approximately five were said to have been homosexuals, including one who was reported to have needed surgery on his anus as a result of frequent gay sex with Msgr. Burkhard. Only one of the Colombians was ordained, Buffalo Father Jorge H. Budez-Castillo. Budez later left the priesthood, married, and became an Army Chaplain. After being subjected to multiple sexual advances from gay American bishops, priests, and seminarians, all the Colombians except Budez left formation, with many enlisting in the U.S. military as an alternative pathway to citizenship.
Very little has been written about countless foreign seminarians from Poland, Colombia, Nigeria, and other countries who arrived in the U.S. on F-1 academic student visas, ordinarily between the ages of 18 and 30, only to be groomed and abused by predator gay clergy in seminaries and parishes. These often fit, good-looking young men were invited by homosexual Catholic clergy because of their lack of financial resources, minimal local connections, and initial language barriers, which made them highly vulnerable to grooming, intimidation, and severe sexual abuse.
One former Colombian seminarian recounted how he and other foreign seminarians were often assigned to work at parishes in the Buffalo Diocese in which the pastor, associate, or both priests were homosexuals who came on to them, even if they informed their gay supervisors that they were heterosexuals. The former seminarian also recalled how straight seminarians at Christ the King were segregated from what he referred to as the ruling “gay mafia.” Straight seminarians who did not accept their rule were often coerced into leaving either voluntarily or involuntarily.
When word got back to Colombia that the Colombian seminarians were being used like “young meat” to satisfy the carnal pleasures of American gay clergy, it is said that Archbishop Isaías Duarte Cancino, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cali, Colombia, made sure that no more Colombian seminarians were sent North. A brave and courageous Church leader who also stood up to the FARC guerrillas, the ELN rebels, and local drug cartels, Archbishop Duarte was murdered on March 16, 2002.
Former foreign seminarians from other countries, like Poland, whose lives were greatly harmed as a result of the sexual harassment and abuse they suffered at the hands of American gay clergy, have suggested filing a class action lawsuit in federal court against the Catholic Church in the United States for depriving them of their First Amendment Rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Former seminarian and abuse survivor Wieslaw J. Walawender petitioned Vice President JD Vance to initiate a RICO investigation into the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The letter alleges institutional cover-ups of clerical misconduct and calls for the cessation and federal scrutiny of the USCCB’s federally funded immigrant resettlement programs.
FIRST QUESTIONS OF THE INTERVIEW WITH HENRY GOMEZ CASAS ON RADIO ROSA MISTICA COLOMBIA
1. Monsignor, we have been reading and reposting your articles published on Substack. We see that your publication is called “John 18:37,” the verse in which Jesus says, “I have come to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
I chose that scripture quote for my Substack publications because I find that there are very few bishops, priests, and media outlets that are willing to speak the truth today about controversial topics like the sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults and clerical homosexual misconduct. Even though I was threatened with a lawsuit by a bishop whose homosexual behavior I reported in an article, I have never been sued in court for libel. And why? Because I have evidence to prove that everything I write is the truth.
2. As a respected investigator, what can you say about sexual abuse statistics in the United States and in other countries?
Church leaders in the Vatican and throughout the world have covered up the true extent of the sexual abuse by Catholic clergy. Even Pope Francis, before his election, lied about abuse in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. In his 2010 book, On Heaven and Earth, Jorge Bergoglio wrote that clerical sex abuse “never occurred in my diocese.” Imagine, an archdiocese with a Catholic population of 2.7 million Catholics, and not one case of sex abuse! In 2017, French documentary maker and investigative reporter Martin Boudot produced Sex Abuse in the Church: Code of Silence. Boudot interviewed several abuse victims in Buenos Aires. These victims testified how Bergoglio covered up their abuse. In my own military archdiocese, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien reported that between 1950 and 2002 there were only two minors who were abused. A later investigation showed that there were over 500 minors and vulnerable adults abused in the military services by Catholic chaplains. Because of gross underreporting by the U.S. Bishops in 2002, the public was misled to believe that only 4% of priests in the US were found guilty of abuse. However, today, the percentage of abusive priests is more accurately found to be between 23% and 25%. In my own diocese, 51 out of 200 priests were found to be guilty of abuse, which represents over 25% of the priests. Studies conducted in other countries like Spain show similar numbers. Because most victims of clerical sexual abuse never report their abuse, I believe the number of abusive clergy is even higher than 25% of all Catholic priests in the world.
3. Church leaders are saying that sex abuse has decreased significantly over the past decades since the Vatican and dioceses have implemented safeguards to protect children. Do you believe that this is true?
The main reason that sexual abuse has decreased in the United States is that the number of active priests has decreased from 60,000 in 1970 to less than 20,000 in 2026, a decrease of 65 percent. Consequently, there are going to be fewer abuse cases because there are fewer priests to abuse young people. As long as most of the bishops and priests are homosexuals, the Church will continue to suffer from sexual predation and clerical homosexual misconduct. And why do I say that? Because studies show that 73 percent of homosexual men admit to having had sex with boys between the ages of 11 and 19. Many studies by researchers like Rev. Dr. Paul Sullins, Rev. Dr. Dariusz Oko, and others show that there is a direct correlation between the number of abuse cases and the number of homosexual priests and bishops.
4. Can you provide our listeners with an example to illustrate sexual predation and homosexual misconduct?
In 1998 and 1999, some 15 Colombian seminarians between the ages of 18 and 30 were recruited by homosexual Church leaders from the Diocese of Buffalo in New York. They came to study for the priesthood and be ordained priests to serve Spanish-speaking Catholics in the United States. Only one of these 15 Colombians was ordained a priest. This priest later left the priesthood, married, converted to a Protestant denomination, and now serves as a military chaplain in the U.S. Army. All the Colombians reported being propositioned for sex by gay priests in their seminaries or while they were working in parishes. One Colombian seminarian was sodomized so badly that he had to have his anus surgically repaired. This seminarian left the seminary and today is living in Florida. Many of the other seminarians left and enlisted in the U.S. military as a path to citizenship. The Colombian seminarians with whom I have spoken firmly believe that they were sex trafficked to satisfy the homosexual appetites of American bishops and priests. One of these former seminarians is helping to translate my new book, Den of Iniquity, into Spanish. The book is based on real abuse cases and deals with the sexual exploitation of seminarians like the Colombians from your country.
II - ABUSE COVERED UP BY POPE, BISHOPS, AND MEDIA
The fact that Pope Francis covered up abuse in Argentina helps to explain why he covered up abuse while he was pope. Francis also covered up for sexually active homosexual priests like Monsignor Battista Ricca with whom he lived in the Casa Santa Marta. Remember that Pope Francis answered, “Who am I to judge?” when a reporter questioned him about his friend Ricca. The reporter knew that Ricca had cohabitated in Uruguay with a Swiss lover, Patrick Haari; that he was caught with a young gay prostitute in an elevator; and that he was also assaulted in a gay park. Pope Francis not only covered up clerical sexual predation and clerical homosexual conduct, but he was also accused by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò of abusing Jesuit novices. This accusation was supported by an Argentine priest who, in 2015, was working in a parish in the United States. The Argentine priest described how Father Jorge Bergoglio sodomized a Jesuit novice positioned on a chair in Córdoba. In the final analysis, Pope Francis could not discipline bishops for abuse when those same bishops knew that he was as bad, if not worse than them.
6. In an effort to justify their homosexual behavior, some members of the LGBTQ community will argue, “I was born that way.” Even Pope Francis was reported to have told a gay man, “God made you like this.” It is said that being gay is not a choice; it is often considered a fundamental part of who someone is. Do you agree with this?
Multiple studies confirm the fact that there is no “gay gene.” Therefore, despite what Pope Francis or others may say, God does not make people gay, just like God does not send hurricanes or tornadoes that cause countless deaths.
Most of the homosexuals with whom I have spoken were either sexually abused during their period of psychosexual development or reported a family dynamic that impacted their sexual orientation and behavior. We know that members of the LGBTQ community suffer from many medical and mental health problems. However, I maintain that these problems are not the result of not being affirmed by society in their behavior. Rather, it is their behavior and lifestyle that has resulted in serious illnesses such as AIDS, or even higher suicide rates than heterosexuals.
The fact that homosexuality is often the result of learned behavior is also supported by studies showing that adult children of gay and lesbian parents are less likely to identify as heterosexual as adults and much more likely to report same-sex attraction. Some studies also show how children of gay or lesbian parents may be more likely to have social and emotional problems than children raised in homes with a mother and father.
Being sexually abused or growing up without a father are factors that contribute to men and women becoming gay or lesbian. These factors are similar to how some children of alcoholic parents can grow up to become alcoholics, or how a boy who witnesses his father abusing his mother may later marry and abuse his own wife. These are all cases of “learned behavior” which help to prove that God does not make people gay or lesbian, and that, in fact, there is no “gay gene,”. As the book of Genesis teaches, God created the world in goodness. If there is suffering, such as sexual diseases, it is because man is misusing God’s life-giving and beautiful gift of sexuality.
7. Do you believe that Pope Leo is any better than Pope Francis in regard to clerical sexual abuse?
I have examined evidence and testimony showing how Pope Leo covered up abuse when he was the Prior Provincial of the Chicago Province of the Augustinians from 1999 to 2001; when he was the Prior General of the Augustinians from 2001 to 2013; and when he was the Bishop of Chiclayo in Peru from 2015 to 2023. Many people are aware of how Pope Leo covered up the abuse of three women in his Diocese of Chiclayo, and how he unjustly laicized their canon lawyer, Monsignor Ricardo Coronado. What most people do not know is that I personally interviewed an Augustinian who reported being abused while studying in Washington, D.C. at the Augustinian House of Formation. The abuse victim confided in me that he reported his abuse by an older seminarian to then-Father Robert Prevost who was in charge of the House of Formation. Instead of disciplining the predator, the victim said that Prevost dismissed him for reporting the abuse, while the predator was later ordained a priest. The former Augustinian wondered if Prevost may have been sexually involved with the older seminarian who abused him. There is also a report by an Augustinian priest who alleged that Prevost covered up sexual abuse by another priest at the Augustinian General Curia in Rome when Prevost was living there as the Prior General. The fact that Pope Leo has yet to discipline over 160 bishops credibly accused of abusing children and vulnerable adults is a clear indication that he is no better than Pope Francis in dealing with abusive clergy. Based on Pope Leo’s Episcopal appointments, it is clear that instead of supporting abuse victims like the Augustinian seminarian in Washington, DC, and the abused Augustinian priest in Rome, bishops today are getting rewarded and promoted by Leo for covering up abuse.
8. Why do you believe that Pope Leo promotes respect for other world religions while, at the same time, he is curtailing Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) groups, including the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)?
Traditional Catholic bishops, priests, and laity are very well known for upholding the official teachings of the Church, including its teachings on respect for life and the immorality of homosexual conduct. These traditional Catholics are seen as a threat to the Lavender Mafia. Consequently, one should not be surprised that the straight SSPX bishops were excommunicated and that the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass is being restricted.
9. What can be done to curb such moral laxity, given that Prevost has already ordered the inclusion of gender issues in all aspects of the Church?
As long as Prevost is the Pope and the Church is controlled by the “Lavender Mafia,” we will continue to see more homosexual bishops appointed. It is estimated that more than 88% of U.S. bishops are homosexuals. These closeted “Synodal Church” bishops would like to change Catholic theology, especially in regard to the sexual immorality of homosexual behavior. In the meantime, Catholics will continue flocking to see a closeted Pope who lives with his secretary, Monsignor Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga, and his new Italian secretary, Father Marco Billeri. Billeri was an engineer before he became a priest. Because many homosexuals become priests to hide their homosexuality, some priests believe Billeri would never have been chosen to be the Pope’s secretary if he were heterosexual. Many homosexual bishops and priests live together today. For example, Cardinal Justin Rigali and Bishop Richard Stika lived together in Knoxville, Tennessee. Rigali and Stika invited Polish homosexual seminarian, Wojciech Sobczuk, to live with them in Stika’s episcopal residence. Sobczuk was thrown out of two seminaries in Poland and one seminary in the United States for homosexual misconduct. While living with Rigali and Stika, Sobczuk was accused of sexually assaulting a parish organist. Many homosexual bishops and priests feel that they can flaunt their homosexuality, even by visiting gay bars. And why do they feel they can go to gay bars or cohabitate like Rigali and Stika? Because the pope is also cohabiting with Rimaycuna and Billeri. Of course, none of this is reported in the media, and Catholics are led to believe that the pope, the bishops, and priests are all celibate heterosexuals who have given up having a wife and children to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, it’s all a lie.
10. Do you sometimes get depressed reporting on all of these scandals in the Catholic Church?
I wish I could write positive articles about the Catholic Church and holy clergy. However, as I see more Catholic churches closing throughout the United States, and as the number of priests and nuns decreases every year, I find it difficult to have hope in the future of the Church. I do appreciate the support I receive from my Substack readers. For example, one Catholic affirmed what I wrote in an article about the large percentage of gays in the Vatican. He reminded me about the drug-fueled, gay orgy in the Vatican in 2014. It was at that orgy that a Monsignor who was to have been made a bishop the following day was rushed to the hospital owing to a drug overdose. Had the media not reported on the orgy, that drug addicted, homosexual monsignor would probably be a bishop or cardinal today. It is for this reason that I want to thank you so very much for having the courage to invite me on your podcast and report the news that the U.S. mainstream and Catholic media will never report. Thank you for your fidelity. Henry, to Christ who came to bear witness to the Truth. God bless you and yours.