This is, of course, old news, since it dates from when Galante was in Texas. But this article is recent. And it begs the question, at least in my own mind, what's Bishop Galante up to here? Who's he protecting in our own diocese? Mr. Dreher says:

I spoke the other day to Steve Sandifer, a lawyer and Catholic layman in Lancaster, a southern Dallas suburb, who had been received into the Church by Fr. Art Mallinson. Shortly thereafter, Sandifer said he learned about Fr. Mallinson's involvement in the lewd, semi-pornographic St. Sebastian's Angels website. Scandalized, Sandifer went straight to Bishop Joseph Galante, at the time the coadjutor bishop in Dallas, to register his shock and anger. This was 2002.

Sandifer told me that Bp Galante assured him their conversation would be in confidence. Sandifer alleges that when he explained his objections about St. Sebastian's Angels to the bishop, that Bp Galante defended Fr. Mallinson, and said the priest hadn't done anything wrong. Sandifer claims that the bishop further said that Fr. Mallinson had assured him that he was no longer part of that site, and that was that. The bishop allegedly told the new convert that he was, in Sandifer's words, "making a mountain out of a molehill."

Not satisfied with this, Sandifer went to Fr. Mallinson's rectory to confront him. Sandifer said Mallinson greeted him by saying, "I've been expecting you. Bishop Galante told me you'd spoken with him."

I contacted Bishop Galante's office in Camden, NJ, and through a spokesman asked the bishop for comment on Sandifer's allegations. I also told the spokesman I wanted to know why Bishop Galante chose to leave Fr. Mallinson in the parish after his involvement with St. Sebastian's Angels became a public scandal (other bishops removed their SSA priests from ministry). I heard back from the diocesan spokesman today. He said, "The bishop doesn't believe it would be appropriate to speak on a personnel matter that's before another diocese."

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Laymen did complain, over and over. And it did them no good. They were told that they were the ones with the problem.

Another article from July 19, 2002 is here:

From Seattle Catholic

The article ends with this excellent quote:

"Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it." -Pope St. Felix III

I do not recommend it, but in the event that you doubt that this gay priest website existed, here's a link to the archive of it: "st. sebastian's angels" site Again let me reiterate that this site is OFFENSIVE and DISGUSTING, but I link her only to prove the site did in fact exist and to highlight just what Bishop Galante had tolerated when he was in TX. There is plenty of warning when you go to the site, before proceeding, that the site you are about to enter is offensive. A Catholic watchdog sort of group has it up on their page at the moment as evidence of the scandal.