By now we’ve all heard the stories of whistleblower priests being bullied into checking into the diocesan-approved treatment center for “evaluation.” Or perhaps the seminarian or diocesan priest branded a sexual deviant for opposing women’s ordination or the Lavender Mafia, by the shrinks hired to screen them. More recently, priests who have been falsely accused of misconduct and removed from ministry without due process find themselves bullied into the diocesan gulag for evaluation.