{"id":70741,"date":"2021-09-12T02:19:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T09:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=70741"},"modified":"2021-09-12T02:19:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T09:19:23","slug":"more-catholic-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/09\/12\/more-catholic-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"More Catholic Scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, the media reported about a new <em>Catholic Church <\/em>scandal when a large number of priests were discovered on <em>Grindr<\/em>.&nbsp; That would be bad enough, but the investigation was prompted by news that at least 16 different mobile devices were logging into the gay hook-up app from \u201cnon-public areas of the Vatican City\u201d \u2013 which means housing and the rectory (I will refrain from my usual rectory joke).&nbsp; We hear that a new list of priests found on the app is about to go public.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this summer, <strong>Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill <\/strong>resigned.&nbsp; Burrill was the administrator for the <em>US Conference of Catholic Bishops<\/em>.&nbsp; In addition to this prestigious position, he was seen in some other positions in various gay bathhouses and on <em>Grindr<\/em>.&nbsp; And Burrill wasn\u2019t the only resignation.&nbsp; A Brazilian bishop was asked to tender his resignation to the Pope after two videos of him \u201cpleasuring himself\u201d during a video chat were leaked.&nbsp; <strong>Bishop Tom\u00e9 Ferreira da Silva <\/strong>confirmed that he was in the video and that it was leaked by a \u201cclose associate\u201d.&nbsp; Talk about being defrocked!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, the media reported about a new Catholic Church scandal when a large number of priests were discovered on Grindr.&nbsp; That would be bad enough, but the investigation was prompted by news that at least 16 different mobile devices were logging into the gay hook-up app from \u201cnon-public areas of the Vatican<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70742,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70741\/revisions\/70742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}