“We learned some things. And we shared what we learned directly with bishops,” the head of Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal admitted after an exposé of its work.
Some of those involved in the group were directly behind the outing of Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, whoover a report that he’d used Grindr and gone to a gay bar and bathhouse, the paper said.
“Trafficking in obscene content, and even criminal content, is a risk to the Church and her children,” he wrote of earlier “heart-wrenching wake-up” calls of grooming and abuse. Renewel analyzed “publicly available data, bought in the ordinary way” to show how “heterosexual and homosexual hookup apps were used” in ways that “were not isolated moral lapses.”
The data was not made public, the group’s leader stressed, saying it was instead shared with the “proper authority of rectors and bishops to act prudentially.” “It was the first needle-in-a-haystack case, where someone sifts through millions of locations in apps and looks for one person and then tries to use that info to impeach them,” Cyphers told the paper.“The promise of celibacy is a public act, it’s not a private commitment,” the Rev. Gerald Murray, a New York City canon lawyer, told the paper, calling Burrill’s outing “a very good thing.”Grindr said it was “infuriated by the actions of these anti-LGBTQ vigilantes.
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