This is a very poor article. Much better reporting can be found in the previously discussed article here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27902214 https://

This is a very poor article. Much better reporting can be found in the previously discussed article here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27902214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27902214) or at the original source (https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pillar-investigates-usccb-gen-sec https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/pillar-investigates-usccb-g...). The article frames this as a priest being outed for his sexual preferences but that is a terribly warped perspective. This priest, as all Catholic priests do, _voluntarily_ took a life long vow to abstain from any sexual relations. He was wantonly breaking that while hiding it from his community. Worse, he was literally on the committee creating regulations to discipline other priests for violations against that very same vow he was breaking. It’s always sad to see a man not live up to his own convictions, but this was a particularly egregious case of hypocrisy as well. It would have been much better for him to withdraw from public life once he knew he couldn’t keep his vows. This is not an instance of an innocent man being outed. It’s a case of a man committing canonical crimes who got caught via anonymized location data. I am worried about some of the future implications as the article states, but what happened in this instance is a good thing.