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I went to confession to him once (at St. Francis Assisi in NY) and he was quite orthodox. St. Francis is a Franciscan church and unfortunately had a number of gay clergy - many of whom they got rid of after the arrival of a new superior (or who were on an AIDS ward somewhere) - and had a lot of outreach activities to gays. I think they may have had Dignity meetings at some point, but then they also had Courage meetings there.

I would seriously doubt that Fr. Judge, whatever Thomas van Essen says, was out there chasing the boys up and down the street. A lot of clergy were encouraged to engage in a male bonding that was so strong that eventually, in the 70s when everything became sexualized, they began to think they were gay. He may have been one of them; or maybe not, but whatever the case, I got the impression that he was a strong and faithful individual who was probably what all priests are supposed to be: celibate.