Vatican in freakout mode after discovering litany of priests on Grindr

Doubt if they ever actually meet anyone. Like Craigslist (and before that AOL chatrooms) it's most teasing and titilation (followed by masturbation and a nap).

A few rosaries, of course.

Here's one of the group sex photos.

In the book "Vatican's Closet" the author says he researched the use of Grindr in the Vatican and it was ubiquitous. Who is surprised, they're all gay.

Is he on the app?

They really need to rethink sexuality.

R6 Only WHORES think of Sexuality

*smacks r6’s knuckles with a ruler*

Better Grindr than cruising the Sunday School room for fresh meat.

They should be glad these guys are cruising for adult men and not little kids

R3 the one in purple far left holding the red ones dress, I could get under that cassock

R6 yes I'm a whore/ slut

gurl, please

R5, I'm sure that hole is wider than the Grand Canyon by now

Catholicism is very dramatic and theatrical.

LOLOLOLOL! Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of freaks..... Curses to them for all the harm they have done to the children of this world, they're fucking predators. And you know what I am super uncomfortable with this taking on a Gay slant. Because for decades and decades we have had to deal with the stigma of Pedophilia. To most straights out here, clueless as they were, they equated being Gay with being a pervert, and especially a pedophile and would never dream of leaving them alone around little boys or even little girls for that matter. So in a way, while I laugh about this, I'm also pissed that it's being promoted about a group that has been notorious for child molesting.

They're all gay.

I stick to Doublelist. It's anonymous.

They must be there only for the purpose of saving poor gay souls.

Exactly R9. Why are they more upset over priests banging other consenting adults rather than kids?

It's not only the abuse of children which only confirms the stereotype of gay= child abuser they also do a lot of mind fuckery on adults.

WTF is a litany of priests?

I'd rather see them on Grindr, than trying to use some little kid to get off.

They just need to give up the whole celibacy thing and also let women become Priests. I mean they are trying to run a Medieval institution in the 21rst century and it’s failing everyone.... badly.

[quote]The first report, published late last month, led to the resignation of Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, the former general secretary of the U.S. bishops’ conference. The second, posted online days later, made claims about the use of Grindr by unnamed people in unspecified rectories in the Archdiocese of Newark. The third, published days after that, claimed that in 2018 at least 32 mobile devices emitted dating app data signals from within areas of Vatican City that are off-limits to tourists.

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[quote]The reports have raised a host of questions: How did The Pillar obtain the cellphone data? How did it analyze the data, which is commercially available in an anonymous form, to identify individual app users? How widespread is the use of dating apps among Catholic priests, and how much has The Pillar been able to learn about specific individuals?

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[quote]The Pillar’s reports have been based on what it describes as “a very large data set” derived from data signals from multiple smartphone apps that were collected over two 26-week periods, one in 2018, and one in late 2019 and early 2020.

[quote]Until 2020, Grindr routinely provided user location data to freewheeling online ad exchanges, where it could be harvested by data brokers.

[quote]The complexity and size of the data set makes it likely that The Pillar’s source had money and analytical skills, said Ashkan Soltani, a former technology adviser to the White House and the Federal Trade Commission.

This information could be used against anyone, the source is just using to expose priests.

I agree with R23, it's past time for the Catholic Church to make some changes.

I hereby rename the Year 2021.

From now on, I'm just going to call it WOMP WOMP.

[quote]an analysis of app data signals correlated to Burrill’s mobile device shows the priest also visited gay bars and private residences while using a location-based hookup app in numerous cities from 2018 to 2020, even while traveling on assignment for the U.S. bishops’ conference.

[quote]According to commercially available records of app signal data obtained by The Pillar, a mobile device correlated to Burrill emitted app data signals from the location-based hookup app Grindr on a near-daily basis during parts of 2018, 2019, and 2020 — at both his USCCB office and his USCCB-owned residence, as well as during USCCB meetings and events in other cities.

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[quote]On June 20, 2018, the day the McCarrick revelations became public, the mobile device correlated to Burrill emitted hookup app signals at the USCCB staff residence, and from a street in a residential Washington neighborhood. He traveled to Las Vegas shortly thereafter, data records show.

[quote]On June 22, the mobile device correlated to Burrill emitted signals from Entourage, which bills itself as Las Vegas’ “gay bathhouse.”

forgot the link ^

[quote]The Pillar contacted the Newark archdiocese after a review of commercially available app signal data showed patterns of location-based hookup app use at more than 10 archdiocesan rectories and clerical residences during 2018, 2019, and 2020. There are 212 parishes in the Newark archdiocese.

Has anyone here ever hooked up with a priest on grindr?

Stories?

You know the Cockgobbler has.

[quote]Analysis of commercially available signal data obtained by The Pillar, which was legally obtained and whose authenticity The Pillar has confirmed, shows that during a period of 26 weeks in 2018, at least 32 mobile devices emitted serially occurring hookup or dating app data signals from secured areas and buildings of the Vatican ordinarily inaccessible to tourists and pilgrims.

[quote]At least 16 mobile devices emitted signals from the hookup app Grindr on at least four days between March to October 2018 within the non-public areas of the Vatican City State, while 16 other devices showed use of other location-based hookup or dating apps, both heterosexual and homosexual, on four or more days in the same time period.

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[quote]Internal data from Grindr users’ accounts could include personal details, including mobile device identifiers, as well as access to private messages sent across the app. Because the app’s primary function is to facilitate hookups (casual sexual encounters), the Grindr app plots users’ locations and flags other users nearby, creating a map of nearby users.

[quote]But the use of Grindr is not the only potential security threat for the Holy See.

[quote]The data analyzed by The Pillar also showed more than a dozen devices with patterns of use for other location-based apps within the secure sections of the Vatican, with Badoo and Skout the most common apps identified. Both apps use the device’s location to connect them with other individuals nearby to meet.

[quote]Skout allows children under 17 to set up accounts on the app, although with limited functionality, and has been flagged in some reports for the ease with which minors can circumvent restrictions.

[quote]Badoo is registered in Cyprus and the U.K. and was created by a Russian developer in 2006. It boasts more than 40 million users worldwide and has been repeatedly flagged as a data security risk for users. While the company claims it has tightened its security, a 2019 report found that downloading the app granted access to more than 90% of a user’s phone or device data.

I have never heard of Skout or Badoo.

Fun fact: the largest gay bathhouse in Europe (Europa Multiclub) is in a building owned by the Vatican, containing several cardinal's apartments.

I was there in 2012 and didn't see any Cardinals wandering around, but hey you never know.

Leave the gay priests alone! What is this witch hunt? As long as they're not hurting anyone, let them have their anonymity. I resent gay hunts, esp when done by gays.

Episcopal and Lutheran clergy are all over the apps, they're almost as slutty as med students.

The troubling thing is here is how the cell phone data was accessed. Dictators could use this to target gay citizens in Indonesia, Iran, Russia (esp. Chechnya).

[quote]Dictators could use this to target gay citizens in Indonesia, Iran, Russia (esp. Chechnya).

Exactly, R34. As I said at R23, this information could be used against anyone, the source is just using to expose priests.... for now.

Oops, I meant R24, not R23

I thought we didn't do math here.

R33, these priests are working for an anti-gay institution, so it's a bit silly to present them as victims

R33 ordinarily I'd agree. But the organization they are a part of and support is one that is openly repressive and hostile to Gays. So I react to this the way I would if some closeted POS were out here viciously opposing Gay Rights. You can't have it both ways. Either you are for us or you are not. But get you fucking foot off our necks.

Is it like the Litany of the Saints? Can it be incorporated in the Easter Vigil service next year?

I want to suck a hung priest off

If priests are no longer shamed for being gay, no longer forced to hide, the homophobia of the Church will give way, as it did in Germany and Switzerland. It has been proven that the most anti-gay clerics are gay and in the closet themselves - look no further than His Ventilated Eminence Raymond Burke. So sure, out the perps but don't hunt the regulars who are just trying to live.

I would definitely have taken up Gorgeous Georg on a booty call.

All you Catholics are fucked up!

R44, thank you, it's a matter of particular pride with us

Why does the Vatican even bother? It needs to come out of the closet.

Popess Benedict should come out!

The should allow gay marriage for its priests.

"It was different in MY day."

- Francis Cardinal Spellman

Something like 95% of priests are gay, and they are not chaste.

Why would anyone with common sense be surprised by them using a sex app?

Or they're upset that they aren't using discretion?

Someone needs to do a gay remake of The Thorn Birds. It would be more accurate, anyway

T42. I loved Taymond Burke in Perry Mason! I didn’t realize he joined the priest after his wife (and son?) died tragically!

What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin’ at her rear end.

Coonan, not Conan )dammit, Autocorrect!)

The article doesn't really say they've discovered a "litany of priests". In fact, they only mention one. Not that all priests aren't gay, they pretty much are!

Tee hee hee , look at Father Bob 's pee pee