WASHINGTON, D.C., (LifeSiteNews) — A whistleblower archdiocesan priest whom Cardinal Robert McElroy has asked the Vatican to laicize has alleged that McElroy has been involved in three homosexual affairs over the years before being appointed archbishop of Washington. Father Michael Briese ratcheted up his public accusations against McElroy after the cardinal reportedly refused the priest’s request for a meeting. Briese, whose previous allegations — which McElroy dismissed as defamatory — were focused on years-long predatory clergy sexual abuse cover-ups by McElroy and his predecessor, Cardinal Wilton Gregory. Briese’s latest round of allegations took aim at the cardinal-archbishop’s personal life. In an open letter published on November 1, Briese suggested in explicit, graphic terms that McElroy had engaged in sodomic practices over the 40 years of his priesthood. The incensed priest accused McElroy of “lifelong infidelity to celibacy and living a moral priesthood,” and said, “…
Father Michael Briese claims that Robert McElroy and the late John Raphael Quinn engaged in sodomitic relations. Andthat gay activist Robert McElroy engaged in homosexual affairs throughout his priesthood. John Raphael Quinn was the one who ordained the homosexual activist Robert Walter McElroy as a priest and co-consecrated him. John R. Quinn succeeded homosexual Joseph Bernardin (then Bishop of Cincinnati).