Chicago Priest Defies Cupich, Burns Rainbow Flag With Cross Background

God bless this priest. He’s truly a man’s man without guile. We need more Father Paul Kalchiks. Pardon the use of Chicago Sun Times news post under LGBTQ hews.

“The people of this parish have been pretty resilient and put up with a lot of B.S.” Kalchik said in an interview in his office Tuesday night. “And it was just by accident that this banner that was made to celebrate all things gay … did not get destroyed when I first got here.”

And, “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 — says the sex-abuse crisis plaguing the church is ‘definitely a gay thing.’

“I can’t sit well with people like Cardinal Cupich, who minimizes all of this,” Kalchik said. “Excuse me, but almost all of the [abuse] cases are, with respect to priests, bishops and whatnot, taking and using other young men sexually. It’s definitely a gay thing.” Read in full here.