Seattle, Wash., Oct 17, 2004 / 22:00 pm
In a recent interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett said he revealed the homosexual culture that was rampant at the Michigan seminary, where he served as academic dean in the 1960s, but was dismissed.
His students included a "large colony of homosexual people" who liked to go to gay bars at night, he told the newspaper. He was also fighting drugs and a hippie subculture. He complained to his archbishop and tried to block the ordination of some students. However, he was deemed "counterproductive" and was sent back to the parish.
The now-archbishop of Seattle observed that many of the clergy sex-abuse cases in the United States involve priests ordained in the 1960s and that 81 percent of minor victims were male.
"One would not want to draw a tie (between homosexuality and child abuse), but I think it does raise the question," he was quoted as saying by the press, adding that some of the homosexual seminarians he knew turned out to be pedophiles.