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21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
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“Sometim people n make equivotns, ‘Well if ’s a s to engage a homosexual act, then I mt be terrible person. Catholics who gathered at Newark’s Cathedral Basili of the Sacred Heart, and 2019, he told NBC News that he found the church’s language around homosexualy to be “very unfortunate” and “hurtful. Acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, lbian, gay and bisexual youth are bullied and attempt suici at higher rat than their heterosexual peers.
While the Roman Catholic Church has long nmned homosexual acts as sful, history neverthels shows many of the church’s lears engaged same-sex love. There is evince that of the 266 pop history, nearly a dozen were gay, bisexual or, one se, transgenr. John XII (955-964)This church lear would mol his papacy on the le of Roman Emperor Elagabol, a potentially transgenr liberte, and would host gay i the papal palace, acrdg to historian Wayne Dyn’s Encyclopedia of Homosexualy.