When Michael Rose wrote Goodbye, Good Men in 2002, he claimed that the American College of Louvain (ACL) Belgium harbored a homosexual subculture among the faculty and students. Rose reported that a seminarian was dismissed after accusing the Vincentian rector of having a sexual relationship with a seminarian who was later ordained for the Diocese of Rochester. What Rose reported from Belgium was happening in many Catholic seminaries in Europe and the Americas as one former U.S. seminarian wrote, “I was in seminary in 2002 for one month and left as I couldn’t stand the gay stuff.” Seminaries like the American College could not be sustained with mainly homosexual candidates who were driving away heterosexual students. Founded in 1857 and administered by the U.S. Bishops for 154 years, the American College closed in 2011.
Today there is only one Catholic seminary left in all of Ireland, St. Patrick’s College at Maynooth. In 2016, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, the former Archbishop of Dublin, expressed concerns about the existence of a “gay culture” at Ireland’s national seminary. Martin stated that anonymous allegations included claims of a “homosexual, gay culture” at the seminary, with students reportedly using the Grindr dating app. He deemed this inappropriate for seminarians, both due to their commitment to celibacy and because such an app would be seen as fostering promiscuous sexuality. Unsatisfied with Maynooth’s leadership for not investigating these allegations, Martin sent Dublin’s seminarians to Rome’s Irish College instead of Maynooth which reportedly continues to promote the ordination of active homosexual seminarians.
After Martin turned over 80,000 files to the Murphy Commission documenting abuse cover-ups by his three Dublin predecessors, Pope Francis never made Martin a cardinal even though Dublin is the largest archdiocese in Ireland. When Arecibo Bishop Fernández Torres in Puerto Rico opposed transgender ideology and, like Martin, refused to send his seminarians to a gay-infested interdiocesan seminary, Pope Francis removed him in 2022 just like he did Tyler Texas Bishop Joseph Strickland in 2023 after Strickland spoke out against clerical sexual predation and homosexual misconduct.
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