At the age of twenty-five, Benjamin James Brenkert --a young man from Long Island, a social work student, and an internet vocation to the priesthood--entered one of the historically boldest, influential, apostolic religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church.
Aged thirty-four, and a member of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in good standing, Brenkert was missioned to the laity by his last religious superior.
Brenkert could not come out publicly as a gay Jesuit and support his.