This week, two priests were busted in Miami Beach after bystanders spotted them giving each other blowies in broad daylight inside a car parked across the street from a playground.
39-year-old Diego Berrio and 30-year-old Edwin GiraldoCortez were so into each other that they didn’t even notice police standing outside their vehicle until an officer tapped on the window to get their attention.
Related: Two priests busted for having sex inside parked car in broad daylight
“There’s a time and a place for everything,” Miami Beach Police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez said, “and this certainly was not the time and place.”
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The priests were arrested and charged with Lewd and Lascivious Behavior and Indecent Exposure. But this is hardly the first time young men of the cloth have been caught behaving in a less than holy manner.
Scroll down for a rundown of other Catholic priests who’ve found themselves at the center of gay sex scandals in recent months and years…
The Amateur Porn Star
In May, video surfaced online of a man wearing priest vestments and having wild gay sex on a church altar.
The super scandalous video was shot at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Kildorrery, Ireland, and featured the young priest performing various sexual acts with another man. After being caught on camera, the priest quickly went into hiding.
“He has taken so-called personal leave to deal with his issues,” a source told the Irish Times in July. “It is understood he has been suffering from some mental difficulties and some addiction problems.”
Related: Priest busted for filming himself having gay sex on church altar goes into hiding
The Young Seminarians
Also in May, two young seminarians from the Irish College in Rome were whisked back to Ireland after allegedly being caught by the rector drunk and naked in bed together.
The men had attended an event marking the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, where they both got drunk. When they got back to their dorm that evening, they started going at it. That’s when the rector walked in.
When asked about the matter, a spokesman for the Catholic bishops told media it was “not appropriate to comment about individuals.”
Related: Two trainee priests sent back to Ireland after being caught in bed together
The Randy Reverend
Over the summer, Rev. Monsignor Francis Nave of Allentown, Pennsylvania was accused of grooming a 16-year-old boy for sex.
According to a lawsuit filed against him in June, Nave met the teen on a social media site. The two engaged in several video chats using Facetime and Skype. During their first video session, Nave asked the teen sexually explicit questions and instructed him to get naked and masturbate on camera.
Nave, of course, denied everything. Unfortunately for him, the teen had screen shots to corroborate everything. In response to the scandal, the Allentown Diocese removed him from ministry pending the outcome of a police investigation.
Related: Screenshots capture priest engaging in sex acts with teen boy during Skype video chats
The wild, drug-fueled gay sex orgy
Back in June 2017, Vatican police raided a cardinal’s apartment after neighbors reported some seemingly unholy goings on. They became suspicious after they noticed a steady stream of men coming and going from the apartment at all hours and behaving “irregularly.”
Police found illegal drugs and a group of naked men engaged in all sorts of sexual activity. The priest was taken to the Vatican’s Roman Pius XI clinic, to detox from drugs, before being whisked off to an undisclosed convent in Italy.
Related: Police bust priest’s wild, drug-fueled gay orgy, and now the Pope is pissed
The Grindr addict
In January 2017, Deacon Michael Jack Byrne was expelled from St. Patrick’s College, Ireland’s oldest seminary, after it was discovered he had a Grindr profile and regularly entertained gentlemen callers in his dorm room at the presbytery.
According to Bynre’s profile, he was “versatile,” “likes deep conversations,” and “enjoys no-strings-attached sex every now and then” with a preference for guys “between 50 and 90” years old.
Things came to a head when the young cleric was accused of inviting a 45-year-old man back to his dorm room and sexually assaulting him.
“I believe this young man is not suitable for priesthood,” Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said at the time.
Related: Young Irish Catholic clergyman whisked off to Rome in attempt to cure him of Grindr addiction
Kangol
Set aside the adult priest grooming the 16-year-old, which is a problem, the rest of these accounts would not be remarkable at all (adult college students consensually in bed with each other; sex parties involving consenting adults; a grown man, with a Grindr profile, seeking sex and companionship with other adult men) if they did not involve seminarians or priests. Given the widespread extent of clerical sex abuse and misbehavior involving children, adolescents, and adults, the Roman Catholic Church has a serious problem on its hands. This is not news. It also is not news, though, that enforced celibacy is not working, as these otherwise unremarkable stories underline. Unless and until the Church deals with the crisis around celibacy, which is being discussed in relation to heterosexual incels right now, these scandals are going to continue. Turn all abusers over to civil authorities, punish bishops to hide or enable them, and allow women priests, allow hetero male priests to marry women, allow gay male priests to be out and marry as well, and they’ll reduce this problem to almost zero.
QueerTruth
The Catholic Church is dead. They’ve had 2 thousand years of sick, twisted leadership and the hypocrisy and crimes against humanity have continued into modern times. It’s beyond understanding and beyond salvation.
There is nothing that can be done to save it. Nothing. Let it die out.
Billy Budd
The bible is a crazy book for crazy people, but even the bible does not say that priests have to be celibate. They enforced ceibacy because they do not want priests to have families and worldly posessions that would go to their sons and daughters when they die. This would remove money from the church.
gaypalmsprings
I dated a Catholic priest for 4 years. He only left the priesthood after we broke up. He invited me to a gay priest party once, and I felt quite uncomfortable, especially when one of the priests talked about his adventures in Thailand. The Catholic Church is screwed up, but no one seems to care – they keep raking in the money.
Lacuevaman
the roman catholic church….. “pay. pray and obey”. the muslims do not have this problem yet they are called the devils. makes no sense.