These stories help expose the problem of homosexuality in the Catholic clergy. Keep in mind these are only the stories that have become public and likely represent only a small sample of the actual number of clerics using gay dating apps like GRINDR.
Gay Orgies In Portugal Parish Houses Reported To Police
The story at a glance A man named Joaquim reported to the Polícia Judiciária (PJ) gay orgies involving several priests from the Diocese of Porto, held in parish houses in ...
WATCH: Idaho Priest Charged With Homosexual Rape Of A Minor After GRINDR Hookup
A Catholic priest at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Nampa, who was arrested on a charge of sexual battery of a minor, was arraigned in Canyon County Court on Thursday. Robert ...
North Carolina Priest Arrested For Homosexual Prostitution In Church Parking Lot
A Catholic priest at St. Ann Catholic Church in Johnston County was arrested early Monday morning and charged with felony solicitation of prostitution, according to the Johnston County Sheriff’s Office ...
Catholic Deacon Sentenced for ‘Enticing’ Gay Minors to Have Sex
S. District Court Judge Eric R. Komitee March 15 sentenced a former deacon who once ministered at a parish in the Diocese of Brooklyn to 16 years in prison for ...
French Priest Held for Drugging and Raping Boy He Met on GRINDR
A priest from northwestern France has been charged with drugging and raping a 15-year-old boy whom he allegedly met on a homosexual dating app called Grindr, according to prosecutors and ...
Lansing Priest Faculties Removed After Report of Underage GRINDR Encounter
A priest in the Diocese of Lansing has had his faculties removed after a report that he engaged in sexual activity with a 16-year-old boy whom he met on the ...
Former Priest Admits To Stealing $100K For GRINDR Gay Sex And Beach House
A Catholic priest was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stealing almost $100,000 in church donations to supplement his personal life, which included traveling and sending money to men he met on ...
Clerical Misconduct On ‘Hook-Up’ Apps Poses Fresh Challenges for Bishops
A spate of online investigations over the past month exposing the alleged use of social media “hook-up” apps by clergy in the United States and in the Vatican, has ignited ...
GRINDR in the Vatican?
The use of location-based hookup apps by officials or employees of Church institutions could present serious security problems for the Church, even at the level of the Holy See’s diplomatic ...
The Grindr Priests Of Newark
‘Nighty-Night Baby’ Tobin appears to have a problem in his Archdiocese. The latest from the independent Catholic news site The Pillar: The Archdiocese of Newark says it will investigate the ...
USCCB General Secretary Burrill Resigns After Homosexual Misconduct Allegations
Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, former general secretary of the U.S. bishops’ conference, announced his resignation Tuesday, after The Pillar found evidence the priest engaged in serial sexual misconduct, while he held ...
‘Sugar Daddy’ New York Priest Swapped Nude Photos With Teenage Boy on Grindr
Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau ...
Grindr, Blackmail and Confession: The Life of a Gay Seminarian
Ydier and Axel are two seminarians whom I meet at the Mario Mieli cultural centre, in Rome. (Their names have been changed.) “There are about 20 of us in my ...
How a ‘Culture of Predation’ Puts Seminarians at Risk for Abuse
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Sexual double lives among the clergy and failures in celibacy formation are among key factors that make priests-to-be vulnerable. Catholic seminarians and priests are breaking their silence about their experiences ...
Bishop Removes Priests From Seminary Amid GRINDR Alligations
The country's largest Catholic diocese has confirmed it will not be sending any of its trainee priests to study at the national seminary in Maynooth this autumn. Amid reports of ...
Priest, Fond Of Orgies, Outed Over GRINDR Account
A well-known Catholic priest in Ireland — who was vocally homophobic in his sermons — has been outed for having his own secret Grindr profile. 35-year-old Rory Coyle was a priest in ...
Italian Bishop ‘Protected’ GRINDR Priest Dismissing Allegation He Paid Boys For Sex
Italian police have arrested an alleged paedophile priest amid media accusation he was protected by the local bishop. Detectives allege father Antonello Tropea, 44, used gay dating app Grindr to ...