One thing we have to do is make sure ordinary Catholics – who are among the most LGBTQ-accepting people in the nation, moreso even then the general population – understand the morally evil acts that priests, nuns, and bishops routinely commit, especially against us LGBTQ people.

When the US Conference of Catholic Bishops lobbied to stop a newly proposed and bipartisan supported Federal suicide hotline, they did it because the hotline directly reaches out to LGBTQ people, especially youth.

A majority of US Catholic bishops said no, that's not okay. Trying to prevent suicide among LGBTQ youth is not okay because we must not acknowledge the LGBTQ identity.

When Catholic press broke the news that the bishops had done that, Catholic lay people around the country gasped in horror. A few of them left the church, finally understanding how intrinsically morally evil their leaders are.

But only a few left the church; there was no general revolt as in Germany where ordinary Catholics have made clear they will stand for morality and decency and goodness no matter what the Vatican tries to force to the contrary.

So, I think the best thing that we can do is keep exposing the hierarchy's evil. Keep helping people understand that their leaders are monsters.

And clearly, anyone who could fire this 62-year-old woman who volunteered to help out in the middle of a pandemic is a monster. A person who doesn't have the slightest understanding of what morality means.

The only thing I know how to do right now is to keep exposing the monsters so that ordinary Catholics (like members of my extended Irish Catholic clan) will rise up and slay them.