A Roman Catholic[1] priest is obligated (takes a vow when ordained) to not have sex with anyone, and it would be scandalous to find a priest—especially one with so much power and connections—to be hooking up with multiple partners in any situation. The app and sexual orientation are immaterial.
The other takeaway is that all the HN preaching about the importance of data privacy and how advertisers are grifting us, and how 'free' services are never free—this is probably the most lucid illustration of those facts yet.
Even those who try to aggregate anonymous data in a safe way are never going to be perfect at making sure nobody could associate the data back to an individual. The best thing is to not use the free (or cheap/ad-heavy) apps and services that do collect location information or other identifiable metrics.
[1] There are other parts of the Catholic church where priests are allowed to marry, and there actually are some Roman Catholic priests who converted from other faiths that allowed marriage, who are still married.
The major exception is the priesthood of the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches; priestly celibacy is a discipline of the Latin Rite, not a universal discipline or doctrine of the Catholic Church.
> this is a temporary exception, though, and does not signify any change in the Church's discipline of clerical celibacy.
Sure, the most recent change was the reestablishment of the permanent diaconate within the Latin Rite, since before that the diaconate (and, before it was suppressed, also the subdiaconate) were within the scope of clerical celibacy.
They aren't treated as immaterial in the attacks made on him by The Pillar based on the data, the attacks that led to the resignation; in them, the app and its use by some child predators (despite the explicit absence of any interactions by the official in question with minors) is specifically used to suggest he had a conflict of interest dealing with sex abuse issues.
And, its worth pointing out that there are Catholics calling foul on The Pillar in strong terms: https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/pillar-investigation-...
Are they tho? The headline says he quit.
Also: Off-topic; You the same "geerlingguy" that does all the open source stuff? Drupal and Ansible and all that stuff? If that's you, I just wanna throw out my "so very much thanks for all you've done for open source" at you. I've learned a ton of great stuff from you over the years. People like you genuinely contribute to a "more-better" world. ;)
"Priests not allowed to marry" is contradictory to theology (the very book Catholics are supposed to believe in):
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%204...
It is unnatural to forcibly suppress desires for life, one way or another it will come out - no wonder there are so many sex scandals of priests abusing children.
With any information (journalism, scientific method, etc.) always check the reliability of sources, refer back to the original, don't just listen to the interpretation of one person (preacher) to avoid bias.
Please provide proof of the contrary
says who?
If anything priesthood is statistically protective against pedophilia, even without accounting for "professions with access".
If I remember, last time I read the literature on the topic, it was quoted as something like 0.2%? As opposed to, say, teachers, which came at a scary 8%, and against a background population level of about 1-2%.
The scandal was about the "handling" of these cases, not about their presumed overwhelming propensity compared to "normal people". So your theory about repressed urges and the like is effectively Bulverism.
Obviously you'd be forgiven for having that impression though. This kind of stuff os golddust for the media. All they have to do is match pedophilia articles with articles about catholics on the front page, and boom -- fact by association.
Yet when mobile phone carriers sell your real-time location data to random entities, it seems nobody gives a damn.
> But any use of the app by the priest could be seen to present a conflict with his role in developing and overseeing national child protection policies, as Church leaders have called in recent months for a greater emphasis on technology accountability in Church policies.
That a priest is gay might violate Catholic teaching but it has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on his ability to develop child protection policies and to suggest his sexuality "could be seen to present a conflict" is, at best, willful ignorance.
I've been through like 3 of these types of meetings our church made us do (when I was still Catholic). They were more like "if you see something, say something" and "how to catch a priest predator" inadvertently. It's more like the Catholic church only wants virgins and people who can't be proven otherwise as priests right now.
Selling that data to third party data brokers allows the data brokers to build up a detailed user profile for pretty much everyone.
>The data broker business model involves accumulating information about internet users (and non-users) and then selling it. As such, data brokers have highly detailed profiles on billions of individuals, comprising age, race, sex, weight, height, marital status, education level, politics, shopping habits, health issues, holiday plans, and more.
These profiles come not just from data you’ve shared, but from data shared by others, and from data that’s been inferred. In its 2014 report into the industry, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) showed how a single data broker had 3,000 “data segments” for nearly every US consumer.
https://theconversation.com/its-time-for-third-party-data-br...
The data brokers buy the data from disparate sources and de-anonymize it.
Another example of Grindr profiting off of user data that should be kept private:
>Grindr is revealing its users’ HIV status to third-party companies
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17189078/grindr-hiv-status-data...
Is there a discrepancy on the Catholic church's teachings on celibacy?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%204...
Hypothesis: It is unnatural to forcibly suppress desires for life, one way or another it will come out (i.e. child sex abuse).
Studies
38% accused, 0.1% convicted
“Cartor, Cimbolic & Tallon (2008) found that 6 percent of the cleric offenders in the John Jay Report are pedophiles; 32 percent ephebophiles, 15 percent 11 & 12 year olds only (both male and female)...” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay_Report
Critic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6026966/\\\\*
How is this thing even legal?
I feel it could be really useful if I ever need to blackmail someone.
Things like these make me want to drop out of anything software related and live a life of physical stuff only. Move to a village and be the local mechanic or baker without a website and just an analog phone line, at most
