The Catholic Church is an almost unique stutn — shunng homosexualy but havg so many gay men s ranks, wr Andrew Sullivan. The Vatin’s failure to reckon wh their sexualy has created a crisis for Catholicism.
Contents:
- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
- CONFSNS OF A GAY PRIT
- CONFESSIONS OF A GAY PRIEST – MIRRORS IRELAND AND MAYNOOTH.
- CONFSNS OF A GAY MARRIED PRIT: A SPIRUAL JOURNEY PAPERBACK – JANUARY 23, 2013
- CONFSNS OF AN EX-GAY: PRO-LGBT PRITS AFFIRMED ME A LIFTYLE THAT ALMOST STROYED ME
- THE GAY CHURCH
- PRITS BROKE NFSN NFINTIALY TO OUT GAY SOLDIERS TO ARY
- BOOK REVIEW: CONFSNS OF A GAY PRIT, BY TOM RASTRELLI
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
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” 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. But gay men probably make up at least 30 to 40 percent of the Amerin Catholic clergy, acrdg to dozens of timat om gay prits themselv and rearchers.
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”Two dozen gay prits and semarians om 13 stat shared timate tails of their liv the Catholic closet wh The New York Tim over the past two months.
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He uld lose all three if his bishop fds his sexualy disqualifyg, even if he is fahful to his vows of environment for gay prits has grown only more dangero. 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. 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.
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“The vast majory of gay prits are not safe, ” said Father Bob Bsen, a prit Park Cy, Utah, who was outed about 12 years ago after he held Mass for the L. ”“You uldn’t have a particular iendship wh a man, bee you might end up beg homosexual, ” explaed a prit, who once nicknamed his iends “the P.
CONFSNS OF AN EX-GAY: PRO-LGBT PRITS AFFIRMED ME A LIFTYLE THAT ALMOST STROYED ME
”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.
THE GAY CHURCH
”One prit, whose parish has no ia he is gay, remembered a backyard cktail party a few years ago where fellow prits were sayg “vile” thgs about a gay bishop. ”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.
“He said, ‘I don’t ever want you to ll me to report about your pastor, unls he is a homo or an alchie, ’” he said, referrg to an alholic.
”Blamg gay men for sexual abe is almost sure to be a major topic this week at the Vatin, at a much-anticipated four-day summ on sexual abe. 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.
PRITS BROKE NFSN NFINTIALY TO OUT GAY SOLDIERS TO ARY
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.
A group of gay prits the Netherlands recently took the unually bold step of wrg to Pope Francis, urgg him to allow gay, celibate men to be ordaed. “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. Confsns of a Gay Prit divulg the clanste ner workgs of the semary, providg an timate and unapologetic look to the psychosexual and spirual dynamics of celibacy and lays bare the “formatn” system that perpetuat the cycle of abe and ver-up that ntu today.
” Prits weled him to a nfg cleril culture where public displays of piety, celibacy, and homophobia masked a closeted unrworld which elr prits preyed upon young recs.
BOOK REVIEW: CONFSNS OF A GAY PRIT, BY TOM RASTRELLI
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