ROME (AP) — Pope Francis beme the first pontiff to endorse same-sex civil unns ments for a documentary that premiered Wednday, sparkg cheers om gay Catholics and mands for clarifitn om nservativ, given the Vatin’s official teachg on the issue.
Contents:
- A LAT EXPERT’S ODYSSEY, FROM THE VATIN TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- THE CORPTN OF THE VATIN’S GAY ELE HAS BEEN EXPOSED
- WHAT POPE FRANCIS’S MENTS ABOUT GAY FAI ULD MEAN FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE WORLDWI
A LAT EXPERT’S ODYSSEY, FROM THE VATIN TO THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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” Cipriano for The New York TimPublished June 18, 2021Updated June 22, 2021PALERMO, Italy — Years after he lost his dream job the Vatin’s Lat partment, left the prithood, me out as gay, went public wh sensatnal acunts of rampant sex among clergy Rome and revented himself as a gay rights activist and journalist wh a lumn Lat, Franc Lepore returned to the Vatin to discs a new November, Mr. His searg Vatin experience led to the ont l of the gay rights movement as the edor of and, this month, the thor of “The Crime of Giarre, ” a book vtigatg the s-old murr of a Sicilian uple that helped spark Italy’s gay rights Cipriano for The New York TimAnd his ep knowledge of the church led to articl an anti-populist and proudly elist publitn, Lkita, where he also has a general tert daily lumn wrten Lat. Lepore’s timate that 80 percent of the Vatin staff are gay ma a that year, Ivan Slfarotto, a polician who is now an unrsecretary Italy’s Interr Mistry, told the new edor of Lkita about a guy who knew everythg about the Vatin.
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THE CORPTN OF THE VATIN’S GAY ELE HAS BEEN EXPOSED
"Unr current Catholic doctre, gay relatnships are referred to as "viant behavur" 2003, the Vatin's doctral body, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, said that "rpect for homosexual persons nnot lead any way to approval of homosexual behavur or to legal regnn of homosexual unns" words but no sign of doctral changeThe remarks have set tongu waggg among Vatin-watchers - and they mark Francis's cleart support for the issue sce beg Pope. " he 2014 was reported that Pope Francis had exprsed support for civil unns for same-sex partners an terview, but the Holy See's prs office nied 2018, Pope Francis said he was "worried" about homosexualy the clergy, and that was "a ser matter" on this story. "Christopher Lamb of Bra’s The Tablet magaze noted Friday that some untri, the rights of gays are a life and ath matter, and that Francis was merely posng the church to fend LGBT Catholics om perhaps adly discrimatn.
WHAT POPE FRANCIS’S MENTS ABOUT GAY FAI ULD MEAN FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE WORLDWI
I spent much of this week readg and tryg to absorb the new and vastatg book by one Frédéric Martel on the gayns of the hierarchy at the top of the Catholic Church, In the Closet of the Vatin: Power, Homosexualy, Hypocrisy. Martel didn’t expect this remarkable ndor, or, clearly, what he was about to see: “Whether they are ‘practisg’, ‘homophile’, ‘iat’, ‘unstraights’, ‘wordly’, ‘versatile’, ‘qutng’, or simply ‘ the closet’, the world I am disverg, wh s 50 shas of gay, is beyond prehensn. He soared through the ranks, directly servg Pop Benedict XVI and Francis, until, as a gay man, he found a way to qu his post bee he uldn’t abi the double life he was forced to lead, or the rancid hypocrisy of the whole system.
) And as Martel prob eper and eper, one theme emerg very powerfully: “Homosexualy spreads the closer one gets to the holy of holi; there are more and more homosexuals as one ris through the Catholic hierarchy. His right-hand man and succsor, Joseph Ratzger, (the future Pope Benedict XVI) personally received notifitn of every claim of sex abe the church unr John Pl II, ignorg most, and ma the stigmatizatn and persecutn of sane, adjted non-abive gay people across the globe his missn stead. Another Amerin rdal, the bishop of a large cy the Uned Stat, ‘has lived for years wh his boyiend, a former prit’, while an archbishop of another cy, a votee of the Lat mass and a man much given to cisg, ‘liv surround by a flock of young semarians’, a fact nfirmed to me by Robert Carl Mickens, an Amerin Vatinologist faiar wh the gay liftyle of the senr Catholic hierarchy the Uned Stat.