Archbishop John C Favalora, until last year the Archbishop of the Miami, Florida, stands accused of running his diocese along the lines of a corrupt “homosexual super-culture”.
The Gawker report, written by former Miami New Times contributor and theatre critic Brandon K. Thorp, gathers information from an intensive investigation by a group of South Florida Catholics calling themselves “Christifidelis.”
If Gawker’s claims are to be believed, Favalora stands accused of
- liking attractive young men to sit on his lap
- allegedly treating them to trips in the Florida Keys
- being part owner of a company that makes Yohimbe, an “all natural” erection-inducing beverage.
Christifidelis maintains Favalora cultivated a “homosexual super-culture” throughout the 195 churches, schools, missions, seminaries, and universities in the Miami Archdiocese by
- rewarding his favourite homosexual ‘sons’
- forgiving his ‘favoured sons’ many indiscretions—rampant sex, hedonism, embezzlement, alcoholism
- railroading chaste priests and
- punishing those with the temerity to complain.
The Christifidelis report is cheekily titled “Miami Vice,” and in 2005 they undertook an extensive investigation of priestly misbehaviour in the Archdiocese.
Christifidelis believe their findings resulted in Archbishop Favalora’s early retirement last year, and his replacement by Thomas Wenski.
The leader of Christifidelis, an attorney named Sharon Bourassa, declined to comment, but it did not stop Gawker releasing portions of “Miami Vice” to the public.
Sources
- Catholic Culture
- Gawker (warning some explicit images)
- Gawker – “Full Miami Vice” report
- Miami Times News
- CathNews USA
- Catholic Exchange