It is the organization Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal (CLCR) which is in charge. On its website, this non-profit organization indicates that its mission is “to offer resources to Church leaders so that they can better care for their priests and their faithful”. Whatever the means used. It is with this in mind that the group has used private data. According to documents consulted by the washington post, he would have spent at least four million dollars in order to buy the data of homosexual dating applications. The information collected spans from 2018 to 2021 and concerns almost all gay platforms, including Grindr. This information was then communicated to “dozens of bishops across the country”says the American daily.
Objective of the project ? “Enable the Church to carry out its mission” by giving the bishops “evidence-based resources” to identify weaknesses in the current training, the documents say. A strategy totally assumed by the president of the association. In an article published Wednesday on a catholic blogJayd Henricks reacted to these revelations by expressing his “pride” to belong to this movement. “After all, the data is used by all major companies, so why not the Church?