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Contents:

• FOUR FIVE VATIN PRITS ARE GAY, BOOK CLAIMS
• POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• THE GAY CHURCH
• VATIN CHANG DRAFT REPORT TRANSLATN ABOUT WELG GAYS

FOUR FIVE VATIN PRITS ARE GAY, BOOK CLAIMS

" The Vatin's msage ced Francis' own words om 2016, when he wrote, "there are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God's plan for marriage and fay. Pope Francis has been viewed wh ut optimism by LGBTQ groups bee of remarks like his statement, wily published 2020, that homosexuals are "part of the fay" and that same-sex and other nontradnal upl need a "civil unn law. Some of the most senr clerics the Roman Catholic church who have vociferoly attacked homosexualy are themselv gay, acrdg to a book to be published next per cent of prits workg at the Vatin are gay, although not necsarily sexually active, is claimed the book, In the Closet of the 570-page book, which the French journalist and thor Frédéric Martel spent four years rearchg, is a “startlg acunt of rptn and hypocrisy at the heart of the Vatin”, acrdg to s Brish publisher is beg published eight languag across 20 untri next Wednday, cidg wh the openg day of a nference at the Vatin on sexual abe, to which bishops om all over the world have been, a former adviser to the French ernment, nducted 1, 500 terviews while rearchg the book, cludg wh 41 rdals, 52 bishops and monsignors, 45 papal ambassadors or diplomatic officials, 11 Swiss guards and more than 200 prits and semarians, acrdg to a report on the Catholic webse the spoke of an unspoken of the “closet”, wh one le of thumb beg that the more homophobic a cleric was, the more likely he was to be alleg that one Colombian rdal, the late Alfonso López Tjillo, who held a senr Vatin posn, was an arch-fenr of church teachg on homosexualy and ntraceptn while g male prostut, the Tablet thor found that some gay prits accepted their sexualy and a few mataed discreet relatnships, but others sought high-risk sual enunters.

Although the book do not nflate homosexualy wh the sexual abe of children, Martel scrib a secretive culture among prits that creat ndns which abe is not nonted, say people faiar wh the book’s ntents. A few months to his papacy, he told reporters who asked about a “gay lobby” at the Vatin: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? ”Last year Juan Carlos Cz, a Chilean survivor of sexual abe, said Francis told him a private meetg: “Juan Carlos, that you are gay do not matter.

POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS

”But a Polish prit who was sacked om his Vatin job and ocked after announcg he was gay has acced the church of makg the liv of lns of gay Catholics “a hell” a letter to Francis 2015, Krzysztof Charamsa cricised what he lled the Vatin’s hypocrisy banng gay prits and said the clergy was “full of homosexuals” December, Francis was quoted a book about votns as sayg homosexualy was a “fashn” to which the clergy was sceptible. In our societi even seems that homosexualy is fashnable and that mentaly, some way, also fluenc the life of the church, ” he timg of Insi the Closet’s publitn, at the start of a tone summ on sexual abe, will raise ncerns that some people may seek to nflate the two the book’s allegatns are likely to be pored over by senr bishops flyg to Rome om more than 100 untri for the four-day summ.

POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH

In his first terview sce the ath of former Pope Benedict XVI, Francis told the Associated Prs that laws crimalizg homosexualy are "unjt" and that Catholic bishops should apply "tenrns" and help ease discrimatn by welg LGBTQ people to the church. Cz says the church's sistence that homosexualy is "s, " a posn embraced by the pope, is "shameful, " although Cz says the pope appears to be tryg to shift the church's relatnship wh the LGBTQ muny.

THE GAY CHURCH

And he shifts this, you know, wordg, like you said , Leila, but he highlights how important is that 's more sful, you know, havg thgs agast your neighbor or beg uncharable, or crimal towards the gay muny, that's sful.

Fernánz wrote about the oral soon after Bergogl was elected Pope Francis, reuntg that a newspaper article he had penned about gay marriage had been clud the anonymo dossier and that an unnamed Vatin “ngregatn” – believed to be the one rponsible for Catholic tn -- repeatedly refed to receive him to expla has also had to acknowledge mistak his handlg of a 2019 se volvg a prit acced of sexually abg mors.

VATIN CHANG DRAFT REPORT TRANSLATN ABOUT WELG GAYS

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAn enuragg note om Pope Francis pped an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s stance toward gay Casilli/RtersPublished June 27, 2021Updated July 6, 2021VATICAN CITY — A lear the Roman Catholic Church’s effort to reach out to L. Catholics revealed on Sunday that Pope Francis had sent him a eply enuragg note, ppg an pecially disorientg week on the Vatin’s attu toward gay Tuday, the Vatin nfirmed that had tried to fluence the affairs of the Italian state by exprsg grave ncerns about legislatn currently Parliament that creas protectns for L. And days later, the Vatin’s send mand sisted the church had nothg agast gay rights, but was protectg self om leavg the church’s re beliefs open to crimal charg of eight years after Pope Francis famoly rpond, “Who am I to judge?

”Those words will almost certaly give sucr to Francis’ liberal supporters, many of whom were eply disheartened by a March rponse by the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah, the church’s top doctral office, to an quiry about whether Catholic clergy have the thory to bls gay unns. “Negative, ” was the answer, which Francis people who support gay rights and are close to the pope say he told them that he relented unr prsure om the ngregatn, a cisn he regretted and hoped to rectify.