While it is true that the floodgates of homosexuality in AmChurch
were opened ever wider after the Second Vatican Council and the
pontificate of Pope Paul VI, the moral rot had taken root
decades, even centuries, before.

An “open secret” is a secret hidden in plain sight. The homosexual
lives of William Cardinal O’Connell of Boston and Francis
Cardinal Spellman of New York and John Cardinal Wright,
Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, were just such a secret,
and remained so even after their deaths. There are at least two
reasons for this. One, because they lived in an era when most
Americans were clueless regarding homosexual behavior in the
life of any individual, much less in the lives of three Catholic prelates
of so great a stature. Secondly, because, with few exceptions,
O’Connell, Spellman and Wright were surrounded by individuals
who had no wish to know. The media and the police, for their part,
kept their silence. The only group that openly discussed their
sexual exploits were their homosexual contemporaries, and they
never “outed” any of the cardinals while they were alive.

Sadly, the homosexual legacy of Cardinals O’Connell,
Spellman and Wright has followed us into the 21st century. We
are currently on the third generation of clerical homosexuals and
pederasts who can be directly tied to these prominent prelates
of the early 20th century... and there will be more generations to
come unless the Vatican acts to disinherit the heirs of perversion
from the Catholic priesthood and religious life.