After reading my last article, “The Church’s Grave Prognosis,” a reader sent me a link to this video of Father Mark Payne celebrating Mass for children and adults, as recent as May 31, 2026. I strongly recommend you watch at least the beginning of this Mass. To demonstrate how poorly informed Catholics are about the sex lives of gay priests, one person commented, “I have never come across a more joyful man and priest as this most holy priest, Fr Mark Payne. What a gift he is to all of us.” This person, like most Catholics who observed Payne’s Mass and sent in a contribution, had no idea that Payne, the former Judicial Vicar of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, was reported for maintaining a public romantic relationship with a layman with whom he has shared a condo for decades.
Because priests who appear to lead double lives like Payne know that most bishops are closeted homosexuals who rarely punish gay priests who lead very uncelibate lives or get caught using gay dating apps like Grindr, they don’t fear repercussions by posting photos of themselves on social media with their lovers at Pride events, gay bars and clubs, and even on vacations with other gay couples. Catholics, who refuse to admit that most American-born priests are sexually active homosexuals, unknowingly finance the gay lifestyles of Payne and other homosexual priests like Msgr, Jeffrey Burrill, the “tip of the iceberg,” who was tracked using his Grindr app to visit numerous gay bars and bathhouses.
In addition to refusing to admit that most U.S. bishops and American-born priests are closeted homosexuals whose greatest fear is being outed, lay Catholics also fail to recognize that straight clergy don’t mix with gay clergy, just like oil and water don’t mix because their molecules are incompatible. When straight priests like myself and Fathers Paul Kalchik, Mark White, Michael Briese, Ricardo Coronado, and others are canceled by either being removed from ministry or laicized for reporting clerical sexual abuse or homosexual misconduct, gay priests like Payne, Steve Rosera, Jeffrey Burrill, Battista Ricca, Walter Rossi, Peter Harman, Adam Park, and countless others reported for engaging in non-consensual and consensual sex with other men and boys, are kept in ministry where they lead very, very comfortable lives.
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