Why Did So Many Gay Men Enter the Prithood the 20th Century?

CATHOLIC PRITS: IT'S 'EMPIRIL FACT' THAT MANY CLERGY ARE GAY

A large majory of prits the Vatin are gay, although many are not sexually active, a new book claims.

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.

‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT

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.”.

Another ntroversial claim the book is that Colombian Cardal Alfonso López Tjillo fend the church’s posns on homosexualy while hirg male prostut, acrdg to The Guardian. 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. On a plane om Brazil Monday, Francis told reporters that, "if someone is gay and he search for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

" 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. "It's an empiril fact that lots of men are gay who are prits.