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ADVOTE SAYS POPE READ, LIKED NEW BOOK ON GAYS THE VATIN

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Early his salac new book about homosexualy the Vatin, the French journalist Freric Martel asks a source to timate the number of Vatin clergy who are “part of this muny, all tennci clud. “I thk the percentage is very high, ” says the source, intified as an Italian journalist who left the Vatin and the prithood after he was disvered viewg gay sex webs on his Vatin puter.

While there has been no shortage of sexual sndals the Catholic Church, mostly ncerng the abe of children, there are no reliable studi on the number of gay Catholics the prithood, mostly bee church lears won’t allow them.

This secret unrworld munit d msag: In Vatin parlance, he wr, to be gay is “to be part of the parish, ” an entendre that blends the sexual and sacred.

THE CORPTN OF THE VATIN’S GAY ELE HAS BEEN EXPOSED

At tim, he reli ls on tradnal journalistic methods like on-the-rerd nversatns and documents than on his self-scribed “gaydar” and y suatns ma by secret sourc. But already Catholics have exprsed ncern that Martel’s book, which ntas some shockg but unverified allegatns, will not only overshadow the church’s attempts to protect children, but also sentially lk gay sndals wh the clergy abe crisis.

“It will distract om the summ and raise people’s mds the ia that all gay prits are breakg their vows and are lked to abe, ” said Mart, who said he has read excerpts of the book.

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