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 The Rev. John O’Connor, O.P., for example, had recently had his priestly faculties suspended by the superior of his province, the Rev. Donald J. Goergen, O.P. . He had become, in fact, their most requested speaker and his tapes sold even better than those of Fulton J. Sheen. . Now the suspended priest claimed in a series of tapes of both the audio and video variety that his province, which included priests like the Vatican-censured Matthew Fox and the uncensured Richard Woods, author of the dubious Another Kind of Love, was run by a ring of homosexuals. He then went on to claim that his provincial, Father Goergen was a practicing homosexual. Over the course of the months following his suspension, O’Connor’s charges became progressively more extreme. In addition to claiming that homosexuals were running the province, O’Connor claimed that the priory at River Forest was being run as a homosexual bordello to keep local priests off the streets and to prevent them from contracting AIDS. By November 2, 1989, O’Connor was implicating the Superior General of the entire order in aeonspiracy against him as well as the ordinary of Chicago, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin. "A prominent Catholic layman who just returned from a business trip to the Vatican," O’Connor wrote in his open letter dated November 2, 1989, "told me that it is known all over Rome that Cardinal Bernardine [sic] is a practicing homosexual..."

The order, for its part, responded by claiming that O’Connor was "crazy." According to Provincial Goergen, O’Connor was slandering fellow priests, and that intolerable situation had to be stopped. Provincial Goergen dismissed the charges O’Connor had made against him but became especially incensed about the charges O’Connor was making against other Dominicans. O’Connor accused one in particular of being a communist who had set out to infiltrate the order over 40 years ago.Of the charges against Goergen, the priest writes,