Why Did So Many Gay Men Enter the Prithood the 20th Century? – Padre Peregro

Contents:

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

IS PRI ACTUALLY A "GAY" R?

Today at school, after seeg my new Pri, one of my iends asked me if I was aware that the Pri was nsired a "gay" r.

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

Sce I am gay, I wouldn't really re if WAS a gay r, but I hadn't heard anythg about this opn (popular opn?

80 PERCENT OF PRITS THE VATIN ARE GAY: NEW BOOK

Is this all jt related to the wily circulated satire report onle, or is a large segment of the Pri-drivg populatn homosexual? I'm not so stupid as to say that the r is gay, hence the "quot" around the word gay, htg that is a r ed by the gay populatn, not a lerally gay r.

Was simply tryg to gge if there was any tth to the fact that an abnormally large portn of the Pri drivg populatn was -fact gay, as some people say we are.

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

“I really am gay, ” Father Green, now a prit near Milwkee, remembered tellg himself for the first time. For years, church lears have driven gay ngregants away shame and sisted that “homosexual tennci” are “disorred. ” 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. A prit Florida put this way: “A third are gay, a third are straight and a third don’t know what the hell they are. ”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.

FOUR FIVE VATIN PRITS ARE GAY, BOOK CLAIMS

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.

HALF OF PRITS AND BISHOPS ARE GAY

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 bate promis to be not only about holdg bishops acuntable but also about homosexualy “It really never was my shame.

“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. I entered the semary at 18, a young, enthiastic, whe, male virg who don’t know anythg, let alone straight or gay.

GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

”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. ”Prits Ameri tend to e out to themselv at a much later age than the natnal average for gay men, 15. 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.

It was jt that no one talked about reached out to a former semary profsor who he thought might also be a gay man.

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

“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. ”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. The grapeve has tght them which prits their dce are gay, whom to tst and whom to “This is not the whole story of who I am.

”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. Ocsnally, a prit may even take off his llar and offer to unofficially bls a gay uple’s may ll this rebelln. ”Jt over a year ago, after meetg wh a group of gay prits, Father Green cid was time to end his silence.