Victim Advocate’s Open Letter To U.S. Bishops, by Gene Thomas Gomulka

By Gene Thomas Gomulka, Complicit Clergy, April 11, 2025

Dear cardinals, archbishops, and bishops,

On April 22, 2008, eleven years before ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was laicized on February 13, 2019, my friend and fellow sex abuse victims’ advocate, Richard Sipe, posted this “Open Letter” online that he sent to Pope Benedict about McCarrick’s homosexual predatory behavior.

Eight years later, after McCarrick continued to travel and function as a Cardinal, Sipe had this letter of July 28, 2016 legally served to then-Bishop Robert McElroy for Pope Francis who alone had the authority to discipline McCarrick.

In addition to these incriminating reports in 2008 and 2016 from Sipe, Father Boniface Ramsey wrote in 2000 to Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, the Apostolic Nuncio, and in 2015 to Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the president of  the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, about McCarrick’s predatory behavior.  After Pope Francis failed to act upon a warning he received about McCarrick from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on June 23, 2013, Vigano blew the whistle and broke the Church’s “Code of Silence” with his “Testimony” of August 22, 2018 in which he revealed how Pope Francis and many high-ranking church officials had been covering up McCarrick’s abuse of seminarians and priests, as well as his consensual and nonconsensual homosexual behavior with many clerics, some of whom he was able to have promoted to prestigious positions in the Church.

When Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope on March 13, 2013, the legacy and Catholic media never mentioned all the sex abuse that he covered up in Argentina which was later documented in 2017 by French investigative journalist, Martin Boudot in Sex Abuse in the Church: Code of Silence.  Abuse cover-ups by Pope Francis before and after his papal election continue to be unreported by most legacy and Catholic media outlets.

As someone who can identify with Richard Sipe, Boniface Ramsey, and Archbishop Viganò whose clerical sex abuse reports about McCarrick were ignored by Church leaders and unreported by the media, I merely want to go on record as saying my April 25, 2025 online report of abuse cover-ups by Catholic prelates, some of whom will participate in the next papal conclave, have likewise been ignored by you, members of the U.S. hierarchy, and have also gone unreported by the legacy and Catholic media (with very few exceptions).

Pope Francis and many bishops who covered up sexual abuse and engaged in homosexual misconduct throughout their lives, often preying on vulnerable adults as they themselves were preyed upon in the seminary, will be given elaborate funerals while countless victims whose abuse they covered up will have lost their faith or die without having achieved earthly justice.

Nuns who were raped and forced to drink semen out of chalices and little girls who had consecrated hosts inserted into their vaginas and rosaries into their anuses – all by priests like Marko Rupnik and Dennis Hanneman who today continue be protected by the Pope and bishops – are revictimized by Church leaders and media representatives whose complicity and failure to act makes them, in my opinion, “accessories after the fact.”

I am sending a copy of this missive to many mainstream and Catholic media representatives who, like yourselves, have been part of the cover-up for years . As with my April 25, 2025 letter to Cardinal McElroy, I don’t expect to receive a response.  However, I simply want to say, “Shame on you” for failing to report and discipline those who abuse minors and vulnerable adults, as well as those who cover it up.

Semper Fidelis,

Gene Thomas Gomulka

CAPT, CHC, USN (Ret)

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