The Rev. Bryan Massgale is a Black, openly gay Catholic prit. His goal: nvert the hearts of the fahful to regnize racism the church and wele L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics.
Contents:
- GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
- OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
- BLACK GAY PRIT NYC CHALLENG CATHOLICISM OM WH
- A GAY PRIT RIGNED OVER GRDR USE. HE WAS OUTED BY HIS CELL PHONE DATA
- CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
- VATIN FIR GAY PRIT WHO CAME OUT BEFORE GLOBAL MEETG
- 'I AM GAY': WISNS PRIT OUT TO PARISHNERS, GETS STANDG OVATN
- A BLACK GAY PRIT NEW YORK CY IS CHALLENGG THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OM WH
- ‘I’M GAY AND I’M A PRIT, PERD.’
- BLACK GAY PRIT NYC CHALLENG CATHOLICISM OM WH
GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE
The Vatin took actn after Krzysztof Charamsa, a mid-level official s doctre office, me out sayg he was proud to be a gay prit. * gay priest news *
Gay prits: Breakg the silence.
He is one of very few openly gay prits. Father Green "me out" to his ngregatn this Milwkee suburb about three years ago, at age 51, when he announced, "I am a gay prit, and a celibate prit. " This moment me after a lifetime of stggle, servg a church that teach that "actg on" homosexual feelgs is a s.
Father Greg Green is one of a very few openly gay prits Ameri. He found folks his ngregatn were overwhelmgly asked Carol Webber, "Do matter to you that the prit here is gay? " Later, they say havg an openly-gay prit helped.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
Father Gregory Green said he revealed his sexual orientatn bee he wants to be a role mol for others and break the silence of gay men the clergy. * gay priest news *
""It says that 's not ol to be gay if you're a prit.
And if you are gay and a prit both at the same time, you've gotta hi one or the other.
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.
OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
"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. We have high suici rat among LGBT youth, and we also have plac the world where gay people n be arrted and executed for beg gay. "He lls Pope Francis (the first pope to e the word "gay" publicly) the most pro-LGBTQ pope ever, though acknowledgg that's "not a high bar.
" "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. "How many gay prits do you thk there are? ""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.
BLACK GAY PRIT NYC CHALLENG CATHOLICISM OM WH
He said he terviewed hundreds of prits, even rdals: "It's 'Fifty Shas of Gay.
' I mean, a lot of different kd of gay. He suggts the largt group of men the Vatin may be gay, but do not practice, and n actually be the most homophobic – and terviews disvered a real range of sexual inti.
A GAY PRIT RIGNED OVER GRDR USE. HE WAS OUTED BY HIS CELL PHONE DATA
"It's important to note: the prits "Sunday Morng" spoke wh, as well as the Vatin self, see no nnectn between homosexualy and the cleril sexual abe crisis. 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. "Doane spoke wh about two dozen prits, who told they were gay, but few would share their stori publicly.
CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN
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. 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.
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Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns Rachel Mart speaks wh Fr. Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns. He's an openly gay Catholic MASSINGALE: I was actually very exced and even jubilant, I have to say.
VATIN FIR GAY PRIT WHO CAME OUT BEFORE GLOBAL MEETG
I was very, very pleased to hear the pope make this kd of endorsement of civil unns for gay and lbian persons. And he says that gay and lbian persons have the right to a fay and a right to a fay life.
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.
'I AM GAY': WISNS PRIT OUT TO PARISHNERS, GETS STANDG OVATN
We have to remember that homosexualy is still crimalized over 70 untri. 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. In this untry, there have been efforts to say that Catholics, Catholic stutns n't be volved or the adoptn - or allowg gay and lbian parents to adopt children.
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. And, as a gay man, he volly disagre wh the church’s doctre on same-sex relatns, stead advotg for full cln of LGBTQ Catholics wh the Vatin holds that gays and lbians should be treated wh digny and rpect, but that gay sex is “trsilly disorred” and his hoy on a recent Sunday, Massgale — who beme public about beg gay 2019 — envisned a world “where the digny of every person is rpected and protected, where everyone is loved.
A BLACK GAY PRIT NEW YORK CY IS CHALLENGG THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OM WH
”At Fordham, a Ju universy, Massgale teach a class on homosexualy and Christian ethics, g biblil texts to challenge church teachg on same-sex relatns. “I realized that no matter what the church said, God loved me and accepted me as a Black gay man, ” he Rev. Charl Borromeo Catholic Church the Harlem neighborhood of New Wardarski / AP fileHis ordatn 1983 me the early years of the HIV/AIDS epimic that disproportnately affected gay men and Black Amerins.
‘I’M GAY AND I’M A PRIT, PERD.’
Among his first funerals as a prit was that of a gay man whose fay wanted no mentn of his sexualy or the disease. “Yet they uldn’t bee that stigma existed great measure bee of how many misters were speakg about homosexualy and AIDS as beg a punishment for s. However, he has scribed homosexualy among the clergy as worrisome, and Vatin law remas clear: same-sex unns nnot be blsed wh the church.
BLACK GAY PRIT NYC CHALLENG CATHOLICISM OM WH
Catholic Church rigned Tuday after his cellphone data was lked to Grdr and var gay bars.
The Pillar, a Catholic newsletter on Substack, approached the USCCB wh data they claimed proved that Burrill had vised gay bars and actively ed Grdr for gay hookups, which vlat both the vow of celibacy mandated for Catholic prits and the church’s stance on print Archbishop José Gomez said that Burrill chose to rign to avoid beg “a distractn, ” acrdg to the Washgton a statement to the Post, a spokperson for Grdr lled The Pillar’s story “homophobic” and ially nied was possible for the pany’s data to have been ed this way. ”The Pillar’s origal story argued that Burrill’s work on child protectn issu was nflict wh his e of the gay datg app, playg to the persistent, damagg, and false stereotype lkg gay men to pedophilia.
That clus gay prits the Catholic church, who are ncerned they may be outed next. Are open about their sexual orientatn, the New York Tim timated a 2019 report that 30% to 75% of practicg male clergy the Catholic Church are gay.