Most Roman Catholic prits the Vatin are gay: new book

Contents:

• CATHOLIC PRITS: IT'S 'EMPIRIL FACT' THAT MANY CLERGY ARE GAY
• WHY DID SO MANY GAY MEN ENTER THE PRITHOOD THE 20TH CENTURY?
• 80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK
• ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
• GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
• EIGHTY PERCENT OF CATHOLIC PRITS ARE GAY. AND A ‘GAY CABAL’ RUL THE VATIN.
• STUDY: NUMBER OF ‘GAY’ PRITS ‘PLUNG’
• FOUR FIVE VATIN PRITS ARE GAY, BOOK CLAIMS

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

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. " 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. "I would also observe that the numbers of gay men and women the church mistry is probably larger than the general populatn, precisely bee they are not seekg marriage.

Louis-based Catholic clergymen, says there's a wi range of statistics out there on gay prits, but jok that his experience, "30 percent are gay, 30 percent are straight, and 30 percent are nial.

If you n show me any time Church history wh as many gays as the Catholic Church Europe and the Ameris currently have, I will give you my vehicle, a 2007 Nissan Murano.

WHY DID SO MANY GAY MEN ENTER THE PRITHOOD THE 20TH CENTURY?

In fact, the fact that we have only one sat repeatedly quoted on this topic om 19 centuri before our own prov to me that we have never had an epimic of so many homosexuals the prithood as today. This blog post is not about the full history of homosexuals the prithood, but rather the cultural factors and attacks on the Church the 20th century that created the perfect storm for many homosexuals to enter Catholic semari. If you doubt that this terpretatn is a simply a stretch to clu homosexualy my blog post, look at which word the Apostle Pl to show how practicg homosexuals will not make to Heaven: "Or do you not know that the unrighteo will not her the kgdom of God?

Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy (μαλακοὶ), nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God" (1 Cor 6:9–10). Remember that the pot of this blog post is simply to show how the culture and the Church changed to allow more gays to the prithood than ever before — part two will be solutns.

Also remember that, although this blog post is not about the rapg of children, remember that nota bene number six at the begng of this blog post shows that 80 percent of the prits who harm children were intified as gay. The that followed Vatin II was not the genis of gay prits, but allowed them to live the open, and here's my gus as to why: All through semary, I was told that there was no change to lurgy or doctre.

80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK

A man who do not believe any objective orr for his sexualy (homo-sex at bt, child abe at worst) is gog to be attracted to a Mass where he, the narcissist, is the only pot of reference for entertag the people. 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. 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. ” 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. 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.

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

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 sexual revolutn happeng outsi semary walls might as well have happened on the moon, and natnal ton the fight for gay rights, like the Stonewall rts, on prit a ral dce said the l remd him of how his elementary school forced left-hand stunts to wre wh their right hand.

Many gay prits spoke of beg pulled between nial and nfn, fally g out to themselv their 30s or Green was 24 when he realized he was gay and nsired jumpg om his dorm wdow. “There will be a time your life when you will look back on this and you’re gog to jt love yourself for beg gay, ” Father Green remembered this man tellg him. ”Though open, the closet means that many prits have held the most paful stori among themselv for s: The semarian who died by suici, and the match om a gay bar found afterward his room.

Wh every new abe revelatn, the tangled threads of the church’s sexual culture bee even more impossible to sort after study shows that homosexualy is not a predictor of child moltatn. When the abe crisis broke out aga last summer, the former Vatin ambassador to the Uned Stat, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, acced “homosexual works” of Amerin rdals of secretly workg to protect abers.

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

And this week, a sensatnal book tled “Sodoma” Europe (“In the Closet of the Vatin” the Uned Stat) is beg released that claims to expose a vast gay subculture at the Vatin. “Instead of seeg creased acuntabily on the parts of the bishops, uld bee once aga a nmnatn of lbian, gay, transsexual people wh the church, ” John Coe, 63, a permanent an Kentucky, who me out last year, said about the summ.

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.

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.

EIGHTY PERCENT OF CATHOLIC PRITS ARE GAY. AND A ‘GAY CABAL’ RUL THE VATIN.

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.

While Pope Francis famoly rpond "Who am I to judge" when asked about gay prits durg a papal prs nference, he has also said that anyone wh "ep seated" homosexual tennci shouldn't be a prit. "Their place is not mistry or nsecrated life, " he Jam Mart, a Ju prit and thor, and the most high-profile advote for LGBTQ Catholics, said, "I thk that if you had sudnly all the gay prits the Uned Stat e out, I thk the Church would be forced to look at the qutn of homosexualy a very different light.

" "One of the thgs I lament is, if there were a se of, say, bullyg a parish or a school, would be wonrful for the gay prit to get up and say, 'Look, I was bullied as a boy, '" Father Mart said. ""It is a large, silent muny, a vast silent majory, " said Frédéric Martel, a French thor who spent four years rearchg his book, "In the Closet of the Vatin, " about the gay unrworld there. He suggts the largt group of men the Vatin may be gay, but do not practice, and n actually be the most homophobic – and terviews disvered a real range of sexual inti.

STUDY: NUMBER OF ‘GAY’ PRITS ‘PLUNG’

A five-year study by New York's John Jay College, missned by bishops, found "the data do not support a fdg that homosexual inty is a risk factor for the sexual abe of mors. Father Greg Green, fahfully servg his parish Wisns, said secrecy is a surge the church, so the first step for him is beg open and asked, "You signed up to work for an stutn that thks beg gay, actg out on that, is a s.

Bernatte Catholic Parish, Milwkee, Jam Mart on Twter"In the Closet of the Vatin: Power, Homosexualy, Hypocrisy" by Frédéric Martel (Bloomsbury Contuum), Hardver, Tra Paperback, eBook and Aud formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound Story produced by Sari Aviv and Anna Matranga. This may well have been the first time history that a Pope has publicly uttered the term “gay”—the word that most men who feel romantic love for other men e to scribe themselv—stead of the pathologizg 19th-century medil term “homosexual. ” Then, a lengthy terview wh a Ju journal, the Pope went further, statg that the Church’s mistry should not be “obssed” wh a few divisive moral issu such as abortn and gay marriage.

“They are really poisono people, and they work out their own ner monology by gettg to posns power and exercisg ” agast other gay men, women, and anyone whom they perceive to be a threat. That at least was the ntentn of the provotive gay French wrer Roger Peyrefte, whose 1976 allegatns about Pl VI ed such a stir that Pl took to the balny of St. ”He told me this story, wh s echo of the parable of the Good Samaran— which a traveler is robbed, beaten, and left by the si of the road, and p men do nothg to help him—to illtrate the every-man-for-himself dynamic of Rome’s gay cleril culture.

FOUR FIVE VATIN PRITS ARE GAY, BOOK CLAIMS

Gay clerics often fail to help one another, he says, for the same reason that no one tried to help him the night that he was robbed: solidary entails the risk of beg outed.

In 2007, Monsignor Tommaso Steni met a young man an onle chat room and ved him to his Vatin office, where their nversatn— which Steni nied that gay sex was a s, touched the man’s leg, and said, “You’re so hot”—was secretly viotaped and then broadst on Italian televisn.

(Steni tried to persua Italian newspapers that he’d jt been playg along orr “to study how prits are ensnared” to gay sex as part of “a diabolil plan by groups of Satanists. A stnch opponent of gay marriage who had publicly lled homosexualy a “moral gradatn, ” O’Brien was brought down Febary by three prits and one ex-prit who acced him of “appropriate ntact” and predatory behavr when he was their bishop.