21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS. – BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY

Contents:

• IS POPE FRANCIS GAY? – A TIMELE OF HIS PRO-GAY RERD
• POPE FRANCIS LLS FOR END TO ANTI-GAY LAWS AND LGBTQ+ WELE OM CHURCH
• THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS
• 21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
• IS POPE FRANCIS SECRETLY PRO-GAY?
• ‘THE BIBLE’ CREATOR PRAIS THE POPE FOR PRO GAY MENTS, TALKS SERI SUCCS
• 21 GAY POP, CARDALS, AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEARS
• POPE FRANCIS' LGBTQ MENTS ARE NOT SURPRISG BUT SCERE, GAY VATIN ADVISER SAYS
• 'PRO-GAY' POPE FETED ON TELEMUNDO
• ANALYSIS: A PRO-GAY CATHOLIC CHURCH LEAR? DON’T GET YOUR POP UP
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

IS POPE FRANCIS GAY? – A TIMELE OF HIS PRO-GAY RERD

Bishops’ 2006 document, Mistry to Persons wh Homosexual Inclatns: Guil for Pastoral Care, that upholds the fn that a homosexual orientatn is objectively disorred. What we spoke about was how a fay that has a homosexual son or dghter, how n they te him or her, how n they raise him or her, how n this fay be helped to move forward this suatn which is a ltle unprecented. March 21, 2015: Pope Francis viss a prison  Napl, havg lunch wh some 90 prisoners, 10 of whom were om the ward which holds mat who are gay, transgenr, or who have HIV/AIDS.

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

July 11, 2015: While on an apostolic vis to Paraguay, Pope Francis met wh a group of civil lears, cludg Simón Cazal, a married gay activist who leads the group SOMOSGAY. Gil Martez said Pope Francis told him, “I would love to vis and talk to gay and lbian people and please tell the gays to pray for me and I shall pray for them. Afterwards, Vatin spokperson Feri Lombardi said that the le “whout excludg anyone” (omted the Vatin’s English translatn of the hoy) “would also clu people wh homosexual tennci.

2016: Durg a New Ways Mistry event, Yayo Grassi, a gay former stunt of the pope’s, reveals that durg the marriage equaly bate Argenta, the future pope sent him an email which said, “There is no place for homophobia the Church.

July 10, 2017: Through a letter om a papal ai, Pope Francis sends a ngratulatory blsg letter to a Brazilian gay uple on the ocsn of the baptism of their three adopted children.

THE POPE’S ‘SHOCKG’ STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE IS G AN UPROAR AMONG CATHOLICS

He suggted that “If we were nvced that [people irregular suatns] are children of God, thgs would change a lot, ” but also affirmed himself as a “nservative” who believ “ is an ngy to speak of homosexual marriage. Pope Francis has cricised laws that crimalise homosexualy as “unjt”, sayg God lov all his children jt as they are, and llg on Catholic bishops who support the laws to wele LGBTQ+ people to the church.

Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops some parts of the world support laws that crimalise homosexualy or discrimate agast LGBTQ+ people, and he himself referred to the issue terms of “s”. Gay rights advot say the antiquated laws are ed to jtify harassment, and pot to new legislatn, such as the “Don’t say gay” law Florida, which forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty om krgarten up to third gra, as evince of ntued efforts to margalise LGBTQ+ UN has repeatedly lled for an end to laws crimalisg homosexualy outright, sayg they vlate rights to privacy and eedom om discrimatn and are a breach of untri’ obligatns unr ternatnal law to protect the human rights of all people, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty.

Some Catholic bishops have strongly upheld them as nsistent wh Vatin teachg, while others have lled for them to be overturned as a vlatn of basic human Tuday, Francis said there need to be a distctn between a crime and a s wh regard to homosexualy. But he has ma reachg out to LGBTQ+ people a hallmark of his pope’s ments didn’t specifilly addrs transgenr or nonbary people, jt homosexualy, but advot of greater LGBTQ+ cln the Catholic Church hailed the pope’s ments as a momento advance. Followg Pope Francis’s announcement clarg support for civil unn laws for same-sex upl, which breaks wh tradnal Catholic valu that oppose homosexual relatnships, the lear has garnered both cricism and support om people all over the world.

21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.

Most recently, NBC reports that retired Philippe Bishop Arturo Bast mented that he “had very ser doubts about the moral rrectns” of the Pope’s stance on legalizg gay relatnships.

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. Benedict IX (1033-1045; 1047-1048)Consired by many to be the first “primarily homosexual” pope, Benedict would be acced of turng the Vatin to a “male brothel, ” acrdg to rearcher Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher. Boniface VIII (1294-1303)Kg Philip IV of France, an enemy of the pope, would dispatch spi to gather rmatn on Boniface, and based on reports om Roman aristocrats, he would publicly acce the pope of sodomy, acrdg to Who’s Who Gay and Lbian History: From Antiquy to World War II.

IS POPE FRANCIS SECRETLY PRO-GAY?

John XXII (1316-1334)While there’s ls bountiful evince than wh other pop, John XXII ma the list of gay pop clud Noel Gar’s 1964 tome Jonathan to Gi: The Homsexual History.

This may have been an suatn about a predisposn toward fancy cloth and fe thgs, or uld have been a timatn of the church lear’s homosexualy, the latter of which earned Pl II k Arno Karlen’s Sexualy and Homosexualy.

‘THE BIBLE’ CREATOR PRAIS THE POPE FOR PRO GAY MENTS, TALKS SERI SUCCS

But Sixt, born Franc lla Rovere, also would be known for favorism, cludg elevatg his male lover (and nephew) Petro Riaro to Cardal, acrdg to Louis Crompton’s Homosexualy and Civilizatn. Cardal Francis Joseph Spellman (1939-1967)The rdal, who was archbishop of New York at the time of his ath, was surround for years by mors of his homosexualy, wh bgrapher John Cooney statg he terviewed at least four dividuals wh personal knowledge of Spellman’s leangs, acrdg to journalist Michelangelo Signorile.

21 GAY POP, CARDALS, AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEARS

Pl VI (1963-1978)The 20th-century pope faced wrten accatns om profsor Fran Bellegradi, a Vatin sir at the start of Pl’s papacy, that mors of homosexualy circulated while he served as archbishop of Milan. The Italian news magaze Vatin Insir, as well as other Italian media outlets, reported that Francis spoke about gay men the semary to the Italian Bishops’ Conference durg a closed-door ssn. That stance puts Francis le wh his precsor, Pope Benedict XVI, who issued a document 2005 statg that men wh “eply rooted homosexual tennci” shouldn’t be allowed to study for the prithood.

The two reali seem to be ntradictory if we nsir that Francis has exprsed publicly and shown his meetgs wh gays and transgenr persons an openns to who they are and how they live. Yet, the official teachg of the Catholic Church on beg gay is that “the homosexual clatn is objectively disorred” and same-sex upl nnot marry the Catholic Church. “I have acpanied people wh homosexual tennci and also wh homosexual practic, ” Francis said durg an -flight prs nference returng om Azerbaijan October, 2016.

Pope Francis’ support for same-sex unns is beg openly cricized by several Roman Catholic lears Ameri — who say his recently revealed pro-gay remarks e “nfn and error” and fly the face of church teachgs.

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

Cardal Sean O’Malley of Boston, however, seemed to fend the Holy Father’s ments, as he released a statement sayg the pope’s “endorsement of civil unns is not an endorsement of homosexual activy, ” acrdg to The Pilot, the newspaper of the Archdce of Boston. Pope Francis, as Cardal Je Mar Bergogl, has ma statements that seem even more off-the-rails than Pope Benedict's most vilently anti-gay remarks: In 2010 he equated gay people, gay marriage and adoptn by gay upl wh the vil, which was enough to have Argenta's print ll his statements "medieval. "But, although I wouldn't wager big money on , I'm thkg 's que possible that we won't hear that kd of rhetoric om him 's bee Bergogl actually only ma those ugly public ments after he uldn't cut a private al to have Argenta's ernment offer gay upl civil unns rather than marriage.

The ernment's marriage equaly law, which ultimately passed, allowed gays to adopt children, and whout the three-year wag perd to which straight upl unr 30 mt adhere. So there was a substantial difference between civil unns and marriage Argenta, particularly wh regard to child rearg, an issue that the church claims is a reason that oppos gay marriage.

The Catholic Church jt don't cut als when to doctre, and Pope Benedict never wavered eher public statements or practice, movg to hib pro-gay forc the church, cludg gay semarians and prits, whom the church spegoated the sex abe sndal. It's for that reason that those opposed to gay marriage, like Maggie Gallagher of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage, are most often opposed to civil unns as there are the statements that Bergogl ma to Marcelo Márquez, a proment gay rights activist Argenta.

'PRO-GAY' POPE FETED ON TELEMUNDO

Acrdg to The New York Tim: "He listened to my views wh a great al of rpect, " said Marcelo Márquez, a gay rights lear and theologian who wrote a tough letter to Cardal Bergogl and, to his surprise, received a ll om him ls than an hour after was livered.

"First off, n we even image Pope Benedict, even as Cardal Joseph Ratzger, rrpondg wh a gay rights activist, let alone answerg his letter, by phone, wh an hour, and gettg together to chat? And by backg civil unns, the church would be makg an extraordary ncsn: regnizg that gay people are discrimated agast as a class and should be protected by laws wrten specifilly for them.

The only ncln we n e to is that Bergogl, as Marquez told The New York Tim, believed that gays need to have, then, did Bergogl rail agast gays such a bigoted way after he was unsuccsful gettg support for civil unns? The untry was about to pass the marriage equaly bill, and Bergogl was publicly showg the Vatin and the world that he'd go to the mat, anizg march and railg agast gays.

ANALYSIS: A PRO-GAY CATHOLIC CHURCH LEAR? DON’T GET YOUR POP UP

O'Brien admted that he had fact engaged appropriate sexual behavr, but there he was jt months before, railg agast gays and gay marriage, llg homosexualy a "grotque subversn. In years past O'Brien had been nsired a liberal, or at least a public voice of tolerance (and, obvly, he may be privately gay himself), but after the marriage equaly bate began Bra, the only way he uld enhance his reer and move up was by nmng homosexualy vociferoly, no matter what he tly of that mak me thk that Bergogl, now that he's Pope Francis and the boss, may surprise . It's too much to expect church doctre on homosexualy to change anytime soon (that's somethg that volv var factns wh the Vatin), but the Vatin is not a mocracy, and if Francis privately supports some rights for gays, then one thg he n do right now, on his own, is simply stop publicly attackg gays.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Whereas Caffarra equently battled Bologna Mayor Virg Merola over the polician's pro-gay iology, Zuppi has bee a close iend of the mayor and is often seen his pany. (Rters)LOS ANGELES – Last week, Pope Francis ma headl when he stated that the Catholic Church has bee too foced on "small-md l" regardg ntroversial issu like homosexualy.

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.

Benedict IX (1033-1045; 1047-1048)Consired by many to be the first "primarily homosexual" pope, Benedict would be acced of turng the Vatin to a "male brothel, " acrdg to rearcher Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher.