The Gay Prit Problem Is there an epimic of homosexualy the prithood? Recent media reports of an “epimic” of AIDS among prits an examatn of the problems the Church that have led to the current suatn.
Contents:
- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
- 80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK
- THE GAY PRIT PROBLEM
- OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
- EIGHTY PERCENT OF CATHOLIC PRITS ARE GAY. AND A ‘GAY CABAL’ RUL THE VATIN.
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
* priest are gay *
“I really am gay, ” Father Green, now a prit near Milwkee, remembered tellg himself for the first time.
80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK
Raphael Gallagher, Can Gay Men be Prits?, The Furrow, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Feb., 2006), pp. 67-80 * priest are gay *
For years, church lears have driven gay ngregants away shame and sisted that “homosexual tennci” are “disorred. ” 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. But gay men probably make up at least 30 to 40 percent of the Amerin Catholic clergy, acrdg to dozens of timat om gay prits themselv and rearchers.
One prit Wisns said he assumed every prit was gay unls he knows for a fact he is not. A prit Florida put this way: “A third are gay, a third are straight and a third don’t know what the hell they are.
THE GAY PRIT PROBLEM
”Two dozen gay prits and semarians om 13 stat shared timate tails of their liv the Catholic closet wh The New York Tim over the past two months.
OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
A few had been exprsly forbidn to e out or even to speak about homosexualy.
He uld lose all three if his bishop fds his sexualy disqualifyg, even if he is fahful to his vows of environment for gay prits has grown only more dangero. 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.
EIGHTY PERCENT OF CATHOLIC PRITS ARE GAY. AND A ‘GAY CABAL’ RUL THE VATIN.
Studi repeatedly fd there to be no nnectn between beg gay and abg children. 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 bate promis to be not only about holdg bishops acuntable but also about homosexualy “It really never was my shame. “The vast majory of gay prits are not safe, ” said Father Bob Bsen, a prit Park Cy, Utah, who was outed about 12 years ago after he held Mass for the L. ”Even before a prit may know he is gay, he knows the closet.
”“You uldn’t have a particular iendship wh a man, bee you might end up beg homosexual, ” explaed a prit, who once nicknamed his iends “the P. I entered the semary at 18, a young, enthiastic, whe, male virg who don’t know anythg, let alone straight or gay.