Outing Cardinal Egan
The Village Voice reports: “A priest’s lawsuit alleges the Catholic Church is hiding pedophile clergy — and offers a stunning reason why”
Halfway through the 44-page complaint, the priest-turned-advocate drops a bomb on the cardinal: He alleges that Egan is “actively homosexual,” and that he has “personal knowledge of this.” His suit names two other top Catholic clerics in the region as actively gay Albany bishop Howard Hubbard and Newark archbishop John Myers.
It’s not that Hoatson has a problem with, as the suit puts it, “consensual, adult private sexual behavior by these defendants.”
No, what Hoatson claims is that, as leaders of a church requiring celibacy and condemning homosexuality, actively gay bishops are too afraid of being exposed themselves to turn in pedophile priests. The bishops’ closeted homosexuality, as the lawsuit states, “has compromised defendants’ ability to supervise and control predators, and has served as a reason for the retaliation.”
. . .Either way, Hoatson thinks he knows what’s up. “I have to be gotten rid of because I’m trying to break the cycle of sexual disorder in the church,” he explains. The disorder includes what he describes as “a promiscuous homosexual culture” perpetuating the cover-up of clergy sexual abuse. Egan, Hubbard, and Myers have hidden predatory priests because they’re hiding their own gay activities, he charges.
To stop the abuse, he says, “you have to admit what is going on in the church with its homosexual culture.”
What Hoatson is saying is, in many ways, nothing new. Speculation over homosexual bishops has circulated among the Catholic faithful for decades.
God help the Church clean its house before more problems arise, and people lose faith.
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