There is a whole new body of research on homosexuality that the church has to digest. Gays have been forced to live a shadow life for long enough, repenting physical affection that is sanctioned in marriage for the rest of us. They have been reviled for just existing. Their parents and loved ones have suffered and been conflicted along with them. Personal repugnance is not justification for publicly humiliating a good man and belittling the totality of his life, which exceeds that one area by a huge margin. Maybe it will do the Church good, to try to publicly justify its position re: gays
This was a tempest in a parish tea pot. The only person who made it public was Corcoran himself. Now everyone knows he is a beleagured self-styled devout Catholic (not at Mass for 34 yrs ) who wrote about his "same-sex partner" on his HRC complaint and denied to the Register that his "same-sex partner" was his "partner." Yes, it is sad when parishioners gossip about each other and try by any means necessary to get the upper hand over their pastor. (Fr. Hood and his vow of fidelity to the bishop are strangely absent from this story.) But it was Corcoran who went to the HRC and to the press.
Regardless of Catholic doctrine there remains within the intellectual antichrist community, an insatiable longing to crush and render useless the teachings and truths of Holy Mother church. A practice tried many times over since Saint Peter, received the 'rock' of Catholicism from Jesus Christ. All have failed. As will this latest tribunal. The Bishop will be forced to defend the faith, justify proper censorship, and host a barrage of invective in all it's legal politeness. Legal craftsmen will attempt to justify the unholy by invoking the Charter of Rights. The good Bishop will prevail.