The secretive effort was the work of a Denver nonprofit called Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal, whose trustees are philanthropists Mark Bauman, John Martin and Tim Reichert, according to public records, an audio recording of the nonprofit’s president discussing its mission and other documents. “It seems totally reasonable to say the Church must ask: ‘Is there a similar technological analog where no cleric would use such an app because of the way in which an infinitesimally small number of clerics have already been demonstrated to use the app inappropriately?’”Grindr said the connections are harmful. ”Researchers Magda Jean-Louis, Razzan Nakhlawi, Monika Mathur and Alice Crites, and reporter Gerrit De Vynck contributed to this report