DETROIT (MI)
Detroit Free Press
December 1, 2005
BY SUSAN AGER
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST
Tom O'Brien: gay and celibate
Bravo to Tom O'Brien, a Jesuit priest.
He told Detroit a secret this week. He told us he is gay. He told us he has, however, led a celibate life.
He had guarded his secret for a lifetime, as if he were a murderer whose confession would put him in prison for life.
You wonder how a man like Tom O'Brien could be afraid.
In her front page account Tuesday, Free Press reporter Patricia Montemurri quoted O'Brien saying: "For some people, it won't make a dime of difference to them about me, and for others, they'll never hear a word I say again."