Book Review: Confsns of a Gay Prit, by Tom Rastrelli

Contents:

• 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
• GAY PRIT STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
• THE GAY CHURCH
• CONFSNS OF A GAY PRIT: A MEMOIR OF SEX, LOVE, ABE, AND SNDAL THE CATHOLIC SEMARY
• BOOK REVIEW: CONFSNS OF A GAY PRIT, BY TOM RASTRELLI
• ‘CONFSNS OF A GAY CATHOLIC’ OFFERS A COMIC VIEW OF A FAH JOURNEY
• CONFSNS OF AN EX-GAY: PRO-LGBT PRITS AFFIRMED ME A LIFTYLE THAT ALMOST STROYED ME

CONFSNS OF A GAY PRIT

Wh the knowledge that the Catholic Church is diverse when sexual orientatn, but still ni the rights and godls of homosexual prits and people, the book clus strikg illtratns of dysfunctnal and hypocril church practic.

CONFESSIONS OF A GAY PRIEST – MIRRORS IRELAND AND MAYNOOTH.

They are htled past gay Catholic protters monstratg agast the church’s heterosupremacy and to a banquet, where, though searchg for alli, they are put on display for old and powerful lears to leer at, before beg rted out past the protters aga. Confsns of a Gay Prit is a heartfelt, urageo memoir about celty and salvatn, wh a transparent nsiratn of the ner polics of the Catholic Church. Tom Rastrelli’s book is a very important read for those who wish to unrstand the homosexualisatn of the prithood and the the ocean of ABUSE that flows om .

CONFSNS OF A GAY MARRIED PRIT: A SPIRUAL JOURNEY PAPERBACK – JANUARY 23, 2013

” 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.

”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. 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.

GAY PRIT STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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.

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

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 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.

THE GAY CHURCH

”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.

CONFSNS OF A GAY PRIT: A MEMOIR OF SEX, LOVE, ABE, AND SNDAL THE CATHOLIC SEMARY

”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.

BOOK REVIEW: CONFSNS OF A GAY PRIT, BY TOM RASTRELLI

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.

‘CONFSNS OF A GAY CATHOLIC’ OFFERS A COMIC VIEW OF A FAH JOURNEY

"Confsns of a Gay Prit is an timate, tailed, and fascatg look both wh Catholic semary life as well as the heart of s thor, Tom Rastrelli. "Confsns of a Gay Prit is a hard book to read--’ll make you squirm, ’ll make your eyebrows raise, you’ll want to toss on the street and let tcks n over--and yet, ’s stay-up-all-night pellg....

In the Uned Stat, however, where there are 37, 000 prits, no pennt study has found fewer than 15 percent to be gay, and some have found as many as 60 percent.

A church that, sce 2005, bans prits wh “ep-seated homosexual tennci” and officially teach that gay men are “objectively disorred” and herently disposed toward “trsic moral evil” is actually posed, ways very few other stutns are, of gay men. The llapse of the closet public and private life the past three s has ma the disproportnate homosexualy of the Catholic prithood much ls easy to hi, ignore, or ny. This cultural and moral shift has not only changed the nscns of most Amerin Catholics (67 percent of whom support civil marriage for gay upl) and gay prits (many of whom are close to qutg) but also broken the silence that long shroud the subject.

CONFSNS OF AN EX-GAY: PRO-LGBT PRITS AFFIRMED ME A LIFTYLE THAT ALMOST STROYED ME

“I replied wh another qutn: ‘Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, do he endorse the existence of this person wh love or reject and nmn this person? ” In the fal draft of the 2014 Synod on the Fay, Francis clud explic mentn of the “gifts and quali” of homosexuals, askg, “Are we pable of welg [them]? Alarmed by the possibily that divorced and remarried people might be weled as well as gays, tradnalists lnched a fierce rearguard mpaign agast the new papacy, wh a foc on what some lled a “Lavenr Mafia” nng the church, and broke new ground nnectg this directly to the horrifyg revelatns of sex abe that me to light 2002.

In creasgly direct ways, they have argued that the root of the sndal was not abe of power, or pedophilia, or clerilism, or the distortive psychologil effects of celibacy and stutnal homophobia, but gayns self.