Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns : NPR

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

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.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

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. ""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. "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.

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

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?

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""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. 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. "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. 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.

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

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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. 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?

CATHOLIC DCE SAYS GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE N'T BE BAPTIZED OR RECEIVE COMMUNN

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. 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.

”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.

VATIN FIR GAY PRIT WHO CAME OUT BEFORE GLOBAL MEETG

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. 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. Catholic Church rigned Tuday after his cellphone data was lked to Grdr and var gay bars.

'I AM GAY': WISNS PRIT OUT TO PARISHNERS, GETS STANDG OVATN

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. “The vast majory of gay prits are not safe, ” Father Bob Bsen, a prit Park Cy, Utah, who was outed around 2007 after holdg a mass for the LGBTQ+ muny, told the Tim. " The Roman Catholic Church has long held that beg gay isn't a s but that beg a gay relatnship or havg gay sex is.

They also n’t serve as wns at Catholic baptisms or, the guidance says, gay and transgenr people n participate such sacraments if they repent. For gay, lbian, bisexual and queer people, that would mean endg same-sex relatnships, and for trans people, would mean livg as the sex they were assigned at birth, although the guidance says trans people who have unrgone "physil chang to the body" aren’t required to reverse, acrdance wh Catholic doctre, the guidance says children of same-sex married upl n be baptized if they are raised the Catholic fah and tght that same-sex marriage go agast the church's teachgs. ’”Marianne Duddy-Burke, the executive director of DignyUSA, which advot for LGBTQ rights the Catholic Church, said the guidance is part of a larger trend of dc’ "makg statements that look like they're tryg to be helpful to gay, queer and transgenr people but that are really dog harm to the spirual, emotnal and physil health of our muny and to fai.

A BLACK GAY PRIT NEW YORK CY IS CHALLENGG THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OM WH

" to a qutn om a reporter about gay prits. A Catholic newsletter reported Tuday that obtaed cellphone data allegedly showg a top Amerin Catholic prit ed Grdr and equented gay bars, and he has rigned om a natnal post amid the release of the Pillar said reviewed material gleaned om the mobile vice of Monsignor Jefey Burrill, general secretary of the U. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the newsletter nclud showed he ed the gay datg app and went to gay bars between 2018 and Pillar said obtaed data om a vendor and claimed matched the numeril intifier of Burrill's mobile vice, which the newsletter alleg had been nsistently ed om his office and app signal data do not intify er nam, do rrelate to unique numeril intifiers of a mobile vice, then that data is aggregated and sold, acrdg to The Pillar.

In a statement to The Washgton Post on Tuday, a Grdr spokwoman scribed the report The Pillar as "homophobic" and disputed the newsletter's scriptn of how obtaed the data. VATICAN CITY — The Vatin on Saturday fired a monsignor who me out as gay on the eve of a big meetg of the world's bishops to discs church outreach to gays, divorce and more tradnal Catholic Vatin took actn after Krzysztof Charamsa, a mid-level official s doctre office, me out newspaper terviews Italy and Poland sayg he was happy and proud to be a gay prit, and that he was love wh a man whom he intified as his boyiend.

‘I’M GAY AND I’M A PRIT, PERD.’

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BLACK GAY PRIT NYC CHALLENG CATHOLICISM OM WH

Charamsa told reporters that the timg of his disclosure was not related to the bishops meetg on the fay, but said he hoped might add "a Christian voice" to the synod that is expected to addrs how the Church n better mister to the homosexual fahful. This is a very personal, difficult and though cisn the Catholic church's homophobic world, " Charamsa said, and asked people to bear this md.

Charamsa told the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza that he was motivated to make his sexual orientatn public by hate mail that he received after publicly cricizg a right-wg Polish prit who is strongly anti-gay the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny. I am a gay prit.