Contents:
- IS THE POPE’S RIGHT HAND MAN HOT OR JT SPECTED TO BE GAY?
- POPE BENEDICT GAY? GE GAENSWE RELATNSHIP SPARKS RUMORS VATIN
- THE POPE IS NOT GAY
IS THE POPE’S RIGHT HAND MAN HOT OR JT SPECTED TO BE GAY?
There’s only one reason you dub a celibate prit wh a nickname like “Geeo Ge”: You thk he’s totally gay. The other nickname Vatin rints have btowed upon Gänswe, “Gay-Org, ” is ls via Wikipedia Commons. 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. 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.
POPE BENEDICT GAY? GE GAENSWE RELATNSHIP SPARKS RUMORS VATIN
La Repubbli also suggts that a gay unrground work aniz sexual meetgs of members at venu across Rome and Vatin Cy.
I fd hard to rve a sgle passage om Colm Toib's que astoundg say the London Review of Books on the Catholic church and the homosexualy qutn. What Toib nveys is the special love many homosexuals have had - for two lennia - for this stutn and s missn; and the choice the hierarchy has had for several s to move forward hope wh the Catholics or to move back fear agast far, tragilly, fear has won.
The homosexual qutn is not any way margal to this; fact, you uld see as a central challenge for a church ught between tth and power. The hope I once saw the 1975 document on gays and then the reactnary bterns of the 1986 retreat and Ratzger's subsequent mpaign agast gay people and all gay prits, regardls of their nduct, enpsulat what has happened to the Catholic muny the years of crisis. ) And this llapse of thory rightly means that this Pope himself is no longer immune to the kd of scty once emed church, havg been revealed to have ncealed raw evil, now has ltle optn but to allow the light , or face sheer seems pretty obv to me - as do to Angelo Quattrochi, whose book is reviewed by Toib - that the current Pope is a gay man (jt as was bldgly clear that John Pl II was straight).
THE POPE IS NOT GAY
But that do not mean that he isn't gay. In fact, Ratzger's mand that gay prits should actively lie about their orientatn mak any public statement about this on s face lackg credibily.
At tim, seems to me, his gayns is almost wce-ducg.