Gay former prit: The Catholic church 'is a sick stutn'

Contents:

• ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
• 80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK
• WHAT ABOUT ‘GAY’ PRITS?
• GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
• GAY FORMER PRIT: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 'IS A SICK STUTN'
• FOUR FIVE VATIN PRITS ARE GAY, BOOK CLAIMS
• BLSG GAY UNNS
• THE GAY CHURCH
• ‘I WAS A GAY PRIT FOR 25 YEARS’
• A GAY PRIT RIGNED OVER GRDR USE. HE WAS OUTED BY HIS CELL PHONE DATA

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

” 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.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

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.

”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.

80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK

”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.

WHAT ABOUT ‘GAY’ PRITS?

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.

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.

And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children? Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church? I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage.

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

And what the pope is dog wh this kd of claratn - he's clearly puttg the Catholic Church on the si of agast the crimalizatn of behavr and favor of protectg the human digny of gay and lbian But help me unrstand this bee 's my unrstandg that the Catholic Church still nsirs homosexualy to be a s, not somethg that should be enuraged a liftyle. And I thk that this really giv a different lens for that kd of nversatn that go on the Catholic Church that we're basilly sayg that, no, gay and lbian persons n, you know, have a right to a fay.

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. Regardg ndidat for the prithood, December 2016 the Congregatn for the Clergy, wh Pope Francis’s approval, reaffirmed that men who live a homosexual liftyle, have “ep-seated homosexual tennci, ” or support the “so-lled ‘gay culture’” nnot be admted to the misterial prithood:.

GAY FORMER PRIT: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 'IS A SICK STUTN'

In relatn to persons wh homosexual tennci who seek admissn to semary, or disver such a suatn the urse of formatn, nsistent wh her own Magisterium, “the Church, while profoundly rpectg the persons  qutn, nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practise homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled ‘gay culture.

FOUR FIVE VATIN PRITS ARE GAY, BOOK CLAIMS

This document reaffirms that, ntrary to some reports, the Church don’t view the term gay favorably, given s associatn wh livg and promotg a liftyle that is irrencilable wh J Christ and his teachg (see John 8:31-32) you like this ntent? 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.

BLSG GAY UNNS

" "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. 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.

THE GAY CHURCH

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.

‘I WAS A GAY PRIT FOR 25 YEARS’

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. 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. Official Catholic teachg nsirs any sexual act outsi of marriage between a man and a woman of the gatherg, known as a synod, there was an unprecented nvassg of Catholics worldwi, which found that the fahful want to see ncrete steps to promote women to cisn-makg posts as well as a “radil cln” of the LGBTQ+ muny the the pope,  an terview wh The Associated Prs  January, cried as “unjt” laws that crimalize homosexualy and clared that “beg homosexual is not a crime, ’’ Mart, who is a Ju like Francis, asked him for clarifitn, given the church’s teachg on the subject.

If that’s not bad enough, Pope Francis jt appoted homosexualy-promotg Newark Cardal Joseph Tob to oversee a very troublg suatn where a Catholic bishop was unrmed by the Vatin unr Pope Francis for standg up for Catholic valu. Jam Mart and has  removed a prit   his archdce om his parish  apparent  retaliatn for his cisn to burn a “rabow pri flag” prevly ed by the parish to promote the homosexual agenda. Jam Mart to speak his archdce  and  has  signated  a  pro-gay prit  who heads a homosexual-affirmg parish as the “Spirual Director for Victims” of sex abe for the Atlanta archdce.

A GAY PRIT RIGNED OVER GRDR USE. HE WAS OUTED BY HIS CELL PHONE DATA

Jam Mart, has lled the Church’s teachgs on homosexualy “ unfortunate” and “hurtful”and he has weled homosexuals  to the Cathedral Basili Newark as a part of an LGBT pilgrimage where Catholics “married to same-sex spo” were ved to participate the Sacrament of Holy Communn. Bishop McElroy  has said that labelg homosexual acts as “trsilly  disorred, ” as the Catechism scrib them, is “very stctive language  that I thk we should not e pastorally.