Dear Steve: I think the real question before us is weither or not the church is breaking God's law. When the church's homophobia alianates young folks to the point of suiside, while at the same time pedophilia is rampant in that institution and covered up, well, my bet is that God didn't have a big problem with the way Mike lived his very sainted life.
The fire department was just one aspect. I don't know when he slept. He was at hospitals at 3am tending to the spirtual needs of folks dieing of AIDs he was a active parish preist, confessor to the Gaelic speaking crowd on Roosvelt Ave, and always in the front lines at fires. He defined sainthood.
Cheers, Larry