Cupich on scandal: ‘We have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by all of this’.Cupich supports pope, acknowledges ‘crisis of faith’ caused by sex-abuse scandal.“What the pastor and some of his parishioners did shows the kind of hatred that LGBT Catholics still face - in their own church.” MORE:
“I cannot imagine a more homophobic act, short of beating up an LGBT person,” Martin tweeted on Tuesday.
James Martin, who has written extensively on welcoming gay and lesbian Catholics into the church - a tone often shared by Cupich and Pope Francis. The flag-burning controversy drew the attention of prominent priest and author Rev. Kalchik - who says he was sexually abused by a neighbor as a child, and again by a priest when he began working for the church at 19 - claims the sex-abuse crisis plaguing the church is “definitely a gay thing,” a claim that Mell called “completely ludicrous.”
