Catholic group spends millions tracking lecherous seminarians and clergy
Mgr. Jeffrey Burrill, caught using Grindr for gay sex
DENVER (ChurchMilitant.com) – A Catholic group has spent millions of dollars to identify a significant number of seminarians and priests who use homosexual dating and hookup apps.
On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that Grindr was the gay hookup app most frequently used by clerics, with priests also using lesser-known homosexual dating apps like Growlr, Scruff and Jack’d. Some were also found to have used heterosexual dating apps and casual hookup apps like OkCupid.
Casual Clerical Sex
Last Friday, Jayd Henricks, president of Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal, admitted that the group had obtained “publicly available data, bought in the ordinary way,” that exposed clerics who were violating their promises of celibacy.
“As we analyzed it, it became clear that heterosexual and homosexual hookup apps were used by some seminarians and some priests in some places, and with volumes and patterns suggesting those were not isolated moral lapses by individuals,” Henricks revealed. ….