In a forthg memoir, former Pope Benedict claims a "gay lobby" the Vatin tried to wield fluence over him.
Contents:
- POPE BENEDICT GAY? GE GAENSWE RELATNSHIP SPARKS RUMORS VATIN
- ‘IS POPE BENEDICT XVI GAY?’ WONRS ANDREW SULLIVAN
- 21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
- EX-POPE BENEDICT DCRIB POWER OF VATIN'S 'GAY LOBBY' NEW MEMOIR
- POPE BENEDICT'S RIGNATN LKED TO GAY NCLAVE: REPORT
POPE BENEDICT GAY? GE GAENSWE RELATNSHIP SPARKS RUMORS VATIN
Proment gay (and Catholic) blogger Andrew Sullivan seems to thk the Pope might be gay. Why do he thk the notorly homophobic Benedict XVI plays for his team? He wr: "At tim, seems to me, his gayns is almost wce-ducg. The prissy fastidns, the effemate voice, the fixatn on lurgy and rual, and the over-the-top clothg accsori..." There's more. * is pope benedict gay *
It was immediately shot down by Ratzger who said that such an approach to protect gay men and gay sex "would rult at least the facilatn of evil. This is part of what Ratzger wrote about their efforts, and about our muny:"Given the failure of the repeated attempts of the Church's legimate thori to rolve the problems prented by the wrgs and pastoral activi of the two thors, the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah is obliged to clare for the good of the Catholic fahful that the posns advanced by Sister Jeanne Gramick and Father Robert Nugent regardg the trsic evil of homosexual acts and the objective disorr of the homosexual clatn are doctrally unacceptable bee they do not fahfully nvey the clear and nstant teachg of the Catholic Church this area. Father Nugent and Sister Gramick have often stated that they seek, keepg wh the Church's teachg, to treat homosexual persons 'wh rpect, passn and sensivy.
'"For the reasons, Sister Jeanne Gramick, SSND, and Father Robert Nugent, SDS, are permanently prohibed om any pastoral work volvg homosexual persons and are eligible, for an untermed perd, for any office their rpective relig stut. "In his memoirs that were published 2016, Benedict talked about the existence of a supposed gay lobby that tried to assert power over him.
‘IS POPE BENEDICT XVI GAY?’ WONRS ANDREW SULLIVAN
This, spe the fact that there had long been mors that Benedict, who fancied red Prada shows and luxur surroundgs, was gay he rigned 2013, as part of the directive as to how Benedict would exist after he left the papacy, was agreed that he uld ntue to wear the whe rob, be lled "Pope emer, " and that he would live wh his long-time secretary Monsignor Ge Ganswe. Sullivan who has wrten about the fact that Benedict might be gay -- though says he may not have acted upon -- qutned the unual livg arrangement, "So Benedict's handsome male pann will ntue to live wh him, while workg for the other Pope durg the day. Known as a nservative theologian, he left a negative legacy on LGBTQ+ rights and lled homosexualy "an trsic moral evil.
Experts say that his time leadg the Congregatn for the Doctre of Fah, the Vatin office that overse "the doctre on the fah and morals throughout the Catholic world, " acrdg to the Vatin, will be better remembered than his time as pope, acrdg to outlet not he was nicknamed "Cardal No" after his efforts to stop the liberalizatn of the Church, cludg challeng to Catholic teachgs on homosexualy and ordag women as Roman Catholic Church has long nmned same-sex sexual relatnships; the church preach that gay and lbian Catholics should rema celibate. Before beg pontiff he ed his fluence to silence an LGBTQ-supportive nun and prit over what he said was their refal to back the "Church's teachg regardg the trsic evil of homosexual acts, " CNN reports.
Related: New Pope on Homosexualy: "Intrsic Moral Evil"In 1986, then-Cardal Ratzger published a document tled "On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.
21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
" The letter warns of "ceful propaganda" om pro-homosexual groups. " The letter refers to homosexualy as an "trsic moral evil. "His antigay dogma led many Catholic church to close their doors to the LGBTQ+ Catholic group years later, the future pope also wrote a letter to the U.
Bishops supportg legal discrimatn agast gays certa areas like adoptn rights, the hirg of LGBTQ+ people as teachers or ach, and the prohibn of queer people the ary.
"One hundred years ago, everybody would have nsired to be absurd to speak of a homosexual marriage.
EX-POPE BENEDICT DCRIB POWER OF VATIN'S 'GAY LOBBY' NEW MEMOIR
Andrew Sullivan, a proment Catholic and lumnist for The Dish and other publitns, suggts that the outgog Pope Benedict may be secretly gay. Sullivan, himself openly gay, speculat that Pope Benedict’s relatnship wh secretary Archbishop Ge Gaenswe is the impet behd that.
Sullivan says “seems pretty obv” that Benedict “is a gay man, ” albe one who has not “explored his sexualy, or has vlated his own strictur on the matter. Detailg the close relatnship between His Hols and his right-hand man, Sullivan c Colm Toib’s review of Angelo Quattrocchi’s book The Pope Is Not Gay.
Gaenswe’s proposed livg arrangement is jt more proof for Sullivan that the now-retired, 85-year-old pope is, act, a closeted homosexual.
POPE BENEDICT'S RIGNATN LKED TO GAY NCLAVE: REPORT
Sullivan’s lumn is more grist for the Vatin gay mor l, g on the heels of allegatns regardg the reasons for Pope Benedict’s rignatn. Italy’s La Repubbli alleg the existence of a damng ternal document ceg powerful lobbyg fluenc wh the Vatin, cludg a gay lobby. La Repubbli also suggts that a gay unrground work aniz sexual meetgs of members at venu across Rome and Vatin Cy.