Lbian Nuns and gay Prits: From The Late Late Show to Maynooth

Contents:

• IRELAND: NE CATHOLIC PRITS ‘SPOTTED GAY BAR’
• PRITS GROUP LLS OUT MISTREATMENT OF GAY CHURCH OFFICIALS IRELAND
• IRELAND: GAY CATHOLIC PRIT ‘ON LEAVE’ AFTER BEG OUTED URT SE
• DUBL PRIT TELLS NGREGATN HE IS GAY – AND WS STANDG OVATN
• GAY PRITS HAVE A PLACE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, SAYS IRISH SENATOR
• LBIAN NUNS AND GAY PRITS: FROM THE LATE LATE SHOW TO MAYNOOTH
• CONTROVERSY AT IRISH SEMARY PROMPTS CONVERSATN ON GAY PRITS
• ELPH BISHOP, BERT & ERNIE, GAY PRITS, AND COL FARRELL ARE ALL INVOLVED IRELAND'S LGBT DEBAT
• PROFILE OF GAY PRITS BRAZIL REVEALS THE HIGH PERSONAL TOLL OF REPRSG ONE’S SEXUALY
• GAY PRITS WHO AREN’T CELIBATE SHOULD LEAVE CLERGY SAYS POPE

IRELAND: NE CATHOLIC PRITS ‘SPOTTED GAY BAR’

On Monday, November 1, The Associatn of Catholic Prits (ACP) unexpectedly issued a statement outlg eleven plats they had surroundg the treatment of prits Ireland, cludg those who are gay.

In other dc, gay prits “are treated as equal and valued members of the prithood, ” a practice which should be granted to all. 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. " Not only was he an active member of the gay muny, often givg talks to Digny USA as well as speakg on homosexualy var semari, he and a gay prit -owned a gay rort.

Acrdg to one study, "homosexual men molt boys at rat grossly disproportnate to the rat at which heterosexual men molt girls.

PRITS GROUP LLS OUT MISTREATMENT OF GAY CHURCH OFFICIALS IRELAND

" This bears out: Although homosexuals prise only 1–3 percent of the entire populatn, they are mtg up to 33 percent of all sex crim agast children. 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.

IRELAND: GAY CATHOLIC PRIT ‘ON LEAVE’ AFTER BEG OUTED URT SE

Pl McHugh of Johns Hopks, a member of the Natnal Review Board, nfirmed that the pritly sex abe sndal was "homosexual predatn on Amerin Catholic youth.

DUBL PRIT TELLS NGREGATN HE IS GAY – AND WS STANDG OVATN

'" That 2011 report characterized the problem not terms of homosexualy, but rather as a rult of strs, psychologil difficulti, and greater accs to boys. The problem is not simply homosexual prits — 's the bishops who protect and promote them, or at the very least tolerate them. Over Ptsburgh, we know then-Bishop Donald Wuerl allowed pro-gay Digny Mass to ntue for eight years unr his watch ( not one but two parish his dce).

And 1991 he allowed dissint New Ways Mistry (whose founr has sce been censured by the Vatin) to offer a homosexual prentatn on dcan property. And was unr Dearn's watch that the lol semary — lled "The Hothoe" for s rampant homosexualy — showed gay porn to semarians.

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.

GAY PRITS HAVE A PLACE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, SAYS IRISH SENATOR

An Irish Catholic prit received a standg ovatn om his ngregatn when he revealed he was gay and then clared his support for same-sex marriage om the pulp, acrdg to Mart Dolan, who has been a prit at the Church of St Nicholas of Myra Francis Street, Dubl for 15 years, ma the unexpected ments durg prit, who was unavailable for ment and is reported to be on holiday, urged his ngregatn to back same-sex marriage the forthg Irish referendum.

LBIAN NUNS AND GAY PRITS: FROM THE LATE LATE SHOW TO MAYNOOTH

”Gay equaly groups Ireland, cludg Marriage Equaly Ireland and the Gay and Lbian Equaly Network, have praised the prit’s cisn to e out ont of worshippers. An opn poll the Irish Tim last month found that 71% of the Republic’s electorate would vote y to allow gay marriag the hierarchy of the Catholic church has fought agast gay marriage the Republic, however, warng would be a “grave jtice”. This week, Catholicism's most open secret was given another public airg when Archbishop Diarmuid Mart stirred thgs up by nfirmg that the archdce of Dubl will move three traee prits to Rome, so that they will avoid St Patrick's Maynooth semary, where gay prits have allegedly been g the sex and datg app would image many clergy members are fur at Archbishop Mart for drawg attentn to Maynooth, and the sexualy and sex liv of gay prits.

One is around gay prits; that gay prits exist wh the semary, that they are havg sex, that they are g the datg and sex app Grdr to munite wh other gay men or other gay prits orr to hook other is around accatns of sexual harassment, wh one former traee prit sayg he was harassed by a member of staff. The immature, archaic and d language clergy members and others have ed to scribe the Maynooth story – “gay subculture” “strange gogs on” “quarrelsome” “not the healthit place” – belongs the past, and pounds homosexualy as somethg to joke about or be sndalised by.

CONTROVERSY AT IRISH SEMARY PROMPTS CONVERSATN ON GAY PRITS

So how n we properly negotiate this balancg act – llg out the church’s hypocrisy on homosexualy while matag sympathy for gay prits – whout fallg to eher of those traps? Wh some people g the story as an opportuny to slag off the church, homosexualy then be llateral everyone knows that plenty of prits are gay, and if society has moved on to accept people of all sexuali, then do the gayns of prits even matter?

There are plenty of gay clergy Ireland and elsewhere, yet the church ntu to teach that homosexualy is sful, and has mpaigned strongly agast LGBT rights and equaly issu, om the crimalisatn of sexual acts between men Ireland, to last year’s marriage referendum mpaign.

ParadoxAnother qutn the church and society needs to ask self, is why a gay man would enter the prithood, when the anisatn preach agast homosexualy. Perhaps some gay prits choose a relig reer to hi their sexualy, or to shut down fay dner table qutns about when they’re gog to fd a nice lady to settle down wh. Perhaps plenty of prits are jt gay the same way that plenty of doctors, lawyers, builrs, footballers, policians, acuntants and shopkeepers are.

ELPH BISHOP, BERT & ERNIE, GAY PRITS, AND COL FARRELL ARE ALL INVOLVED IRELAND'S LGBT DEBAT

Unfortunately, the sniggerg public reactn to the Maynooth story pounds homophobia, and also giv an opportuny for people to voice homophobic opns through “jokey” remarks or phy social media ments. Not only do this type of disurse prent a platform for homophobia to be aired outsi of the church, also mt be distrsg for gay prits who will probably now have to enavour to nceal their sexualy even further. Meanwhile, Archbishop Mart's cisn to move traee prits to Rome stead of Maynooth, as if that would somehow circumnavigate gayns is lghable.

The Vatin is the gay clergy pal of the world, wh a nveyor belt of gay soap opera storyl emergg om the Holy See – and those are jt the on we hear about. An Irish legislator has affirmed a place for openly gay prits the Catholic Church, ments ma as discsn ntu about an unhealthy sexual atmosphere at the untry’s natnal semary. 0 reported yterday, he ced as his reasons an alleged “gay culture” and qutned whether the semary was a “good place for stunts.

PROFILE OF GAY PRITS BRAZIL REVEALS THE HIGH PERSONAL TOLL OF REPRSG ONE’S SEXUALY

This archbishop’s cisn has eliced many rpons, cludg that of Irish Senator Jerry Buttimer who, acrdg to the Eveng Echo, said he was unsurprised that gay men would be formatn for the prithood.

Buttimer, an openly gay Fe Gael legislator om Cork and a fahful Catholic, said church lears should wele this realy rather than regard as a problem. He said the church has failed to rpect people of all sexual inti, and Archbishop Mart’s cisn “exposed the hypocrisy of the Church around s teachgs on sexualy, celibacy and attu towards gay people. Flannery suggted that most applints to semary today were eher gay men (or at least men nfed about their sexualy) and tradnalist men.

“There is absolutely no reason why a gay man should not be a prit, but if a particular profsn is attractg a far higher percentage than is prent the general populatn, then qutns need to be asked about the nature of the profsn.. Flannery said beyond affirmg gay men the prithood, the church mt crilly exame the issu of women mistry, clerilism, and Roman terventnism.

GAY PRITS WHO AREN’T CELIBATE SHOULD LEAVE CLERGY SAYS POPE

” ‘[In semary] you are always gog to have a mixture of gay and heterosexual ndidat, that has always been the se, and there will be – om time to time, cints that people would prefer didn’t happen.

Several mentators have also said that homosexualy is, perhaps unfortunately, a fet to hi the real and much larger problems at Maynooth and beyond. “The immature, archaic and d language clergy members and others have ed to scribe the Maynooth story – ‘gay subculture’ ‘strange gogs on’ ‘quarrelsome’ ‘not the healthit place’ – belongs the past, and pounds homosexualy as somethg to joke about or be sndalised by. Ireland and the Church has been subject to many sex sndals sce the early 1990s but appears that when to members of our clergy and our nvents beg gay, (or straight for that matter) well, then all hats, or soutan, are only have to look to an episo of The Late Late Show om a ltle over thirty years ago to see the moral panic that n be generated on the acknowledgement that prits and nuns n have a sexualy the release of their book, Breakg Silence: Lbian Nuns on Convent Sexualy, Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan appeared on The Late Late Show to promote s release Manahan and Curb were ex-nuns and lbians who had risen to notoriety followg the book’s release the US.

Immediately upon s release, a text acknowledgg that nuns also have sexual hibns, and gay on at that, was nsired so heo that the Irish ctoms thori seized 1, 500 pi on s arrival to the wasn’t jt the ctoms thori that were so sndalised. Dpe major chang to public attus sce 1985 wir Irish society, however, homosexualy is still clearly viewed as a problem by the church.