Grdr, blackmail and nfsn: The life of a gay semarian – The Irish Tim

Contents:

• ‘GAY CLUBS’ N SEMARI, SAYS POPE BENEDICT POSTHUMO ATTACK ON FRANCIS
• ‘GAY CLUBS’ RUN SEMARI — POPE BENEDICT BOOK IS PUBLISHED BLASTG PROGRSIVE POPE FRANCIS
• GRDR, BLACKMAIL AND NFSN: THE LIFE OF A GAY SEMARIAN
• GRDR, BLACKMAIL AND NFSN: THE LIFE OF A GAY SEMARIAN
• ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
• GAY SEMARIANS
• GAY CLUBS RUN CATHOLIC SEMARI SAYS POPE BENEDICT ATTACK ON FRANCIS

‘GAY CLUBS’ N SEMARI, SAYS POPE BENEDICT POSTHUMO ATTACK ON FRANCIS

Gay “clubs” operate openly Catholic semari, the stutns that prepare men for the prithood, the late Pope Benedict XVI has claimed a posthumoly published book sthg of Pope Francis’s progrsive agenda. The existence of “homosexual clubs” is particularly prevalent the US, Benedict said his book, addg: “In several semari, homosexual clubs operate more or ls openly. Seven are clearly gay.

‘GAY CLUBS’ RUN SEMARI — POPE BENEDICT BOOK IS PUBLISHED BLASTG PROGRSIVE POPE FRANCIS

That agre more or ls wh the ual percentage: between 60 and 70 per cent of semarians are gay. I have brown hair, ” he tells semarian go on: ‘The atmosphere at my semary is also very homosexual.

There are stunts who really live out their homosexualy; others who don’t, or not yet. “There are homosexuals who are really chaste; there are also heterosexuals who are practisg for want of women, out of substutn, one might say.

They are far om their village for the first time, whout their fay, and a strictly mascule ntext and strongly homosexual universe they beg to unrstand their, the ordands – even the olr on – are still virgs when they reach the semary: ntact wh other boys, their tennci are revealed or e to foc. For me gog to the semary was a way of alg wh my homosexualy. No longer able to nceal his homosexualy, he chose to talk to me ankly, and we’ve met up aga for dner five tim durg this Ydier, Axel and Robert, Lafd lked his reer path to his homosexualy.

GRDR, BLACKMAIL AND NFSN: THE LIFE OF A GAY SEMARIAN

Gradually, he managed to put a name to his malaise: homosexualy.

’He gradually disvered and accepted his homosexualy, and left for Italy, sce the Roman semari were “tradnally”, he tells me, the place “where the sensive boys of Lat Ameri are sent” the pal he started livg a well-partmentalised life, whout ever allowg himself to spend the night away om the semary where he stayed, and where he now had important me he is “openly gay”, and he talks about his obssns as tense sexual sir. ”In acceptg his homosexualy, Lafd also started seeg the Church another light. In nfsg their homosexualy to their prit or spirual director, the semarians leave themselv exposed.

At yet other tim the nfsns – even though this is a sacrament – lead to touchg, harassment, blackmail or sexual church puts up wh the nunciatn of homosexuals, but forbids prits who are ma aware of sexual abe nfsn to betray that secretWhen a semarian nfs that he has attractns or tennci, he tak risks. It puts up wh the nunciatn of homosexuals, whose admissns have been eliced nfsn, but forbids prits who are ma aware of sexual abe nfsn to betray that secret, ” one semarian laments.

GRDR, BLACKMAIL AND NFSN: THE LIFE OF A GAY SEMARIAN

But my homosexualy is well known wh the semary. Homosexual practice is better tolerated the semari when is not displayed. Chasty and celibacy apply mostly to women, ” the German semarian adds wh a broad the celibacy of prits remas place, a gay prit will always receive a better wele the church than a straight prit.

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

“Essentially the church has always preferred gay prits to heterosexual prits.

GAY SEMARIANS

Wh s anti-gay circulars, claims to be changg thgs a ltle, but you n’t change a realy wh a circular! “While the celibacy of prits remas place, a gay prit will always receive a better wele the church than a straight prit. ”The semarians I have terviewed agree on another pot: a heterosexual nnot feel pletely at ease a Catholic semary, bee – and I’m quotg the exprsns they ed – of “the looks”, the “special iendships”, the “bromanc” the “boy-chasg”, and the “sensivy”, “fluidy”, “tenrns” and “generalised homoerotic atmosphere” that emanat om .

GAY CLUBS RUN CATHOLIC SEMARI SAYS POPE BENEDICT ATTACK ON FRANCIS

Anyone who wasn’t a nfirmed bachelor would be another semarian adds, repeatg a mantra that I have heard several tim: “J never once mentns homosexualy.

A large proportn of those who went out at the ad of night lookg for chance enunters or, Rome, clubs like Diabolo 23, K-Men’s Gay, the Bunker or the Vic Club n now cise om the fort of their own to apps like Grdr, Tr or Hor, and hook-up s like GayRomeo (now PlaRomeo), Scff (for more mature men and “bears”), Daddyhunt (for those who like “daddi”), or Ren (for fetishists and “extreme” sexuali), they no longer need to move or to take too many wh my rearchers Rome, I also disver the homosexualy of several semarians, prits or curia bishops thanks to the magic of the they gave their email addrs or mobile numbers out of polens or plicy when we met the Vatin. )Today lots of them spend their evengs on GayRomeo, Tr, Scff or Venerabilis – but mostly on prits spot each other whout meang to, havg disvered that another gay cleric is a few metr away. And my team and I have also managed to prove that Grdr do s job every eveng si the Vatin Facebook, another se ed a lot for cisg, bee of the diversy of s members, is easy to spot gay prits or semarians.