The Catholic Church is an almost unique stutn — shunng homosexualy but havg so many gay men s ranks, wr Andrew Sullivan. The Vatin’s failure to reckon wh their sexualy has created a crisis for Catholicism.
Contents:
- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
- WHY DID SO MANY GAY MEN ENTER THE PRITHOOD THE 20TH CENTURY?
- 80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK
- CATHOLIC PRITS: IT'S 'EMPIRIL FACT' THAT MANY CLERGY ARE GAY
- GAY FORMER PRIT: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 'IS A SICK STUTN'
- GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
- OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
- AS CATHOLIC SEX ABE CRISIS DEEPENS, CONSERVATIVE CIRCL BLAME GAY PRITS
- THE GAY CHURCH
- FOUR FIVE VATIN PRITS ARE GAY, BOOK CLAIMS
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
Some Catholic clergy say most prits are gay. * priests homosexual *
” And yet, thoands of the church’s prits are stori of gay prits are unspoken, veiled om the outsi world, known only to one another, if they are known at than about 10 prits the Uned Stat have dared to e out publicly.
McCarrick, the once-powerful rdal who was ocked last week for sexual abe of boys and young men, has flamed accatns that homosexualy is to blame for the church’s rurgent abe crisis. And yet proment bishops have sgled out gay prits as the root of the problem, and right-wg media anizatns attack what they have lled the church’s “homosexual subculture, ” “lavenr mafia, ” or “gay bal. He has lled homosexualy “fashnable, ” remend that men wh “this ep-seated tenncy” not be accepted for mistry and admonished gay prits to be “perfectly rponsible, tryg to never create sndal.
”The sexual revolutn happeng outsi semary walls might as well have happened on the moon, and natnal ton the fight for gay rights, like the Stonewall rts, on prit a ral dce said the l remd him of how his elementary school forced left-hand stunts to wre wh their right hand.
WHY DID SO MANY GAY MEN ENTER THE PRITHOOD THE 20TH CENTURY?
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”Though open, the closet means that many prits have held the most paful stori among themselv for s: The semarian who died by suici, and the match om a gay bar found afterward his room.
Wh every new abe revelatn, the tangled threads of the church’s sexual culture bee even more impossible to sort after study shows that homosexualy is not a predictor of child moltatn.
When the abe crisis broke out aga last summer, the former Vatin ambassador to the Uned Stat, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, acced “homosexual works” of Amerin rdals of secretly workg to protect abers. “Instead of seeg creased acuntabily on the parts of the bishops, uld bee once aga a nmnatn of lbian, gay, transsexual people wh the church, ” John Coe, 63, a permanent an Kentucky, who me out last year, said about the summ. They have unvered how siar mistranslatns, misntextualizatns, and misterpretatns have altered the meangs of the ancient scriptur to legimate morn social prejudic agast homosexualy.
80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK
When early Christian mentators such as John Chrysostom, one of the most prolific biblil wrers of the fourth century, cricized homosexual acts, was typilly part of an ascetic nmnatn of all sexual experienc. In fact, the fact that we have only one sat repeatedly quoted on this topic om 19 centuri before our own prov to me that we have never had an epimic of so many homosexuals the prithood as today.
This blog post is not about the full history of homosexuals the prithood, but rather the cultural factors and attacks on the Church the 20th century that created the perfect storm for many homosexuals to enter Catholic semari.
If you doubt that this terpretatn is a simply a stretch to clu homosexualy my blog post, look at which word the Apostle Pl to show how practicg homosexuals will not make to Heaven: "Or do you not know that the unrighteo will not her the kgdom of God? Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy (μαλακοὶ), nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God" (1 Cor 6:9–10). Remember that the pot of this blog post is simply to show how the culture and the Church changed to allow more gays to the prithood than ever before — part two will be solutns.
CATHOLIC PRITS: IT'S 'EMPIRIL FACT' THAT MANY CLERGY ARE GAY
Also remember that, although this blog post is not about the rapg of children, remember that nota bene number six at the begng of this blog post shows that 80 percent of the prits who harm children were intified as gay.
The that followed Vatin II was not the genis of gay prits, but allowed them to live the open, and here's my gus as to why: All through semary, I was told that there was no change to lurgy or doctre. A man who do not believe any objective orr for his sexualy (homo-sex at bt, child abe at worst) is gog to be attracted to a Mass where he, the narcissist, is the only pot of reference for entertag the people.
A total of about 80 percent of the most revered clerics the Roman Catholic Church are homosexual spe the church’s opposn to gay rights, acrdg to the extensively rearched book by French journalist Frédéric Martel. The gay prits adhere to an unspoken lled “the closet, ” where is unrstood that, for stance, a rdal or bishop who nounc homosexualy is more likely to be gay, acrdg to the book “In the Closet of the Vatin.
GAY FORMER PRIT: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 'IS A SICK STUTN'
Gay and straight prits alike are cheerg Pope Francis's ments about homosexualy the prithood, sayg gay prits make up a signifint segment of the Catholic clergy and serve papal regnn. " It's a ment that stands stark ntrast to the policy of Francis's precsor, Pope Benedict XVI, who signed a document 2005 that said men wh strong gay tennci should not be prits.
Louis-based Catholic clergymen, says there's a wi range of statistics out there on gay prits, but jok that his experience, "30 percent are gay, 30 percent are straight, and 30 percent are nial. He and his partner plan to soon enter to a civil Wolf never had any problems leadg Nashville area church until he was quoted a 2019 New York Tim article about gay nsirable blowback, Wolf rigned and retired a few months after that story published.
The policy is also set forth many other clearly word texts om the Scriptur that forbid homosexual acts, adultery, fornitn and other lewd nduct: Ephians 5:5-7; Galatians 5:16-21; Revelatn 21:5-8; Revelatn 22:14-16; Matthew 15:19-20; Matthew 5:27-30; 1 Corthians 6:9-20; Colossians 3:5-6; 1 Thsalonians 4:1-8; 1 Timothy 1:8-11; Hebrews 13:4; Levic 18:22; Levic 20:13; Genis 19; Romans 1:1-18, and 1 Timothy 1:8-11, among others.
GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
We mt not allow charg of tolerance, homophobia and spegoatg to supprs a ank discsn and analysis of the lk of much of this misbehavr to active homosexuals, and a subculture among some of them that tolerat and promot behavr which God forbids. Pope Francis recently reerated the policy that the Catholic Church nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practice homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled “gay culture. If that’s not bad enough, Pope Francis jt appoted homosexualy-promotg Newark Cardal Joseph Tob to oversee a very troublg suatn where a Catholic bishop was unrmed by the Vatin unr Pope Francis for standg up for Catholic valu.
Jam Mart and has removed a prit his archdce om his parish apparent retaliatn for his cisn to burn a “rabow pri flag” prevly ed by the parish to promote the homosexual agenda. Jam Mart to speak his archdce and has signated a pro-gay prit who heads a homosexual-affirmg parish as the “Spirual Director for Victims” of sex abe for the Atlanta archdce.
Jam Mart, has lled the Church’s teachgs on homosexualy “ unfortunate” and “hurtful”and he has weled homosexuals to the Cathedral Basili Newark as a part of an LGBT pilgrimage where Catholics “married to same-sex spo” were ved to participate the Sacrament of Holy Communn. Bishop Steven Biegler has, alongsi a rdal and 10 bishops, teamed up wh a pro-homosexual advocy group to release a statement affirmg youths who intify as LGBT, statg, ”God is on your si. Bishop Edward Weisenburger has jt signed a statement partnership wh a pro-homosexual advocy group support of young people who intify as LGBT, tellg them that “God is on your si.
OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
Kopacz has, alongsi Cardal Joseph Tob and 10 bishops, teamed up wh a pro-homosexual advocy group to release their statement affirmg youths who intify as LGBT, statg, “God is on your si.
While Pope Francis famoly rpond "Who am I to judge" when asked about gay prits durg a papal prs nference, he has also said that anyone wh "ep seated" homosexual tennci shouldn't be a prit. "Their place is not mistry or nsecrated life, " he Jam Mart, a Ju prit and thor, and the most high-profile advote for LGBTQ Catholics, said, "I thk that if you had sudnly all the gay prits the Uned Stat e out, I thk the Church would be forced to look at the qutn of homosexualy a very different light. " "One of the thgs I lament is, if there were a se of, say, bullyg a parish or a school, would be wonrful for the gay prit to get up and say, 'Look, I was bullied as a boy, '" Father Mart said.
""It is a large, silent muny, a vast silent majory, " said Frédéric Martel, a French thor who spent four years rearchg his book, "In the Closet of the Vatin, " about the gay unrworld there. Father Greg Green, fahfully servg his parish Wisns, said secrecy is a surge the church, so the first step for him is beg open and asked, "You signed up to work for an stutn that thks beg gay, actg out on that, is a s. Bernatte Catholic Parish, Milwkee, Jam Mart on Twter"In the Closet of the Vatin: Power, Homosexualy, Hypocrisy" by Frédéric Martel (Bloomsbury Contuum), Hardver, Tra Paperback, eBook and Aud formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound Story produced by Sari Aviv and Anna Matranga.
AS CATHOLIC SEX ABE CRISIS DEEPENS, CONSERVATIVE CIRCL BLAME GAY PRITS
And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children? Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church?
THE GAY CHURCH
I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage. And what the pope is dog wh this kd of claratn - he's clearly puttg the Catholic Church on the si of agast the crimalizatn of behavr and favor of protectg the human digny of gay and lbian But help me unrstand this bee 's my unrstandg that the Catholic Church still nsirs homosexualy to be a s, not somethg that should be enuraged a liftyle.
FOUR FIVE VATIN PRITS ARE GAY, BOOK CLAIMS
And I thk that this really giv a different lens for that kd of nversatn that go on the Catholic Church that we're basilly sayg that, no, gay and lbian persons n, you know, have a right to a fay. Namely, exhibs a distct disfort potg fgers at homosexualy — the same disfort exhibed large part by the Church hierarchy, which, spe of tough measur implemented after the sex abe crisis, fails to look at the root e: homosexual prits, and the gay-iendly bishops who protect them. In 2004, clared that "80 percent of the abe at issue was of a homosexual nature" and went on to affirm that "an unrstandg of the crisis is not possible" whout referrg to "the prence of homosexually oriented prits.
It was gay-iendly, dissint Dearn who beme the first print of the Natnal Conference of Catholic Bishops, now the USCCB — which to this day remas vted matag the narrative that the sex abe crisis had ltle to do wh gay clergy and everythg to do wh a handful of viant, child-moltg perverts unnnected to homosexualy. " "It seems clear light of the recent terrible sndals, " Burke said, "that ed there is a homosexual culture, not only among the clergy but even wh the hierarchy, which needs to be purified at the root.
Conflatg homosexualy and sexual abe Bishop Robert Morlo of Madison, Wisns, wrg to Catholics his dce last month, noted that the recent cints of clergy abe volved "viant sexual — almost exclively homosexual — acts by clerics.