‘Gay clubs’ n semari, says Pope Benedict posthumo attack on Francis | Church & Culture

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
• GAY CLUBS RUN CATHOLIC SEMARI SAYS POPE BENEDICT ATTACK ON FRANCIS
• 'GAY CLUBS' N SEMARI, SAYS POPE BENEDICT POSTHUMO ATTACK ON FRANCIS
• GRDR, BLACKMAIL AND NFSN: THE LIFE OF A GAY SEMARIAN
• POPE BENEDICT: ‘GAY CLUBS’ RUN SEMARI
• ‘GAY CLUBS’ N SEMARI, SAYS POPE BENEDICT POSTHUMO ATTACK ON FRANCIS‘GAY CLUBS’ N SEMARI, SAYS POPE BENEDICT POSTHUMO ATTACK ON FRANCIS
• POPE BENEDICT: ‘GAY CLUBS’ RUN SEMARI, BY NICK SQUIR
• BREAKING: SECRET POPE BENEDICT BOOK IS PUBLISHED BLASTG PROGRSIVE POPE FRANCIS, REVEALS US CATHOLIC SEMARI ARE HAVENS OF 'GAY CLUBS'
• ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT

‘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. © Alsandra Benetti/Corbis/Corbis via Getty ImagPope Francis has been the head of the Catholic Church sce 2013 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.

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.

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

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.

GAY CLUBS RUN CATHOLIC SEMARI SAYS POPE BENEDICT ATTACK ON FRANCIS

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

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

’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.

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

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. But my homosexualy is well known wh the semary. Homosexual practice is better tolerated the semari when is not displayed.

POPE BENEDICT: ‘GAY CLUBS’ RUN SEMARI

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

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

”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 . 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.

POPE BENEDICT: ‘GAY CLUBS’ RUN SEMARI, BY NICK SQUIR

This is te, for example, of several prelat that we followed Rome: most of them were unfaiar wh the nfintialy protols of the social work, and left their list of iends only had to look at the acunt of a Roman gay well nnected the homosexual muny of the cy to terme om “iends mon” whether a prit was gay or not. A timele need not nta a sgle gay msage: the way Facebook works almost always giv gays pe this you need to have partmentalised your life – g separate works and never havg shared the slightt personal rmatn – to such an extent that is almost phon and the ter are changg the liv of semarians and prits for better or for is an eded extract om In the Closet of the Vatin: Power, Homosexualy and Hypocrisy, by Frédéric Martel, published by Bloomsbury. Pope Benedict XIV is ad but apparently has left behd a book to be read, highlightg a Church near "llapse, " s semari gay "clubs, " and plenty of cricism for the man pridg now over all, Pope Francis.

BREAKING: SECRET POPE BENEDICT BOOK IS PUBLISHED BLASTG PROGRSIVE POPE FRANCIS, REVEALS US CATHOLIC SEMARI ARE HAVENS OF 'GAY CLUBS'

Benedict wr that the Church is close to “llapse” and pats a picture of semari the Uned Stat as centers of promiscuo homosexualy and perversn. “In var semari, ” the pope explaed, “homosexual ‘clubs’ were formed which acted more or ls openly and which clearly transformed the atmosphere the semari. I remember observg how many obvly gay prits there were as a stunt at the Ju Universy of San Francis as early as the 1980s.

Wh gayns me advocy of the gay liftyle. Ignati thedral, to the Gay Men's Chos for a ncert.

Sce then, we have seen problems wh this bowg to the gay liftyle -- the first I noticed was that all the young straight young men my circle, who sought to bee prits, a heckuva lifetime mment, were beg dismissed om the semari as not sued to the prithood.

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

There was a growg spicn that they weren't part of a sort of gay "club. When the pedophile sndals broke, there were an ordate number of gay cints among the perpetrators. To be fair, there were hetero perverts, too, but the gay ponent the sndals was out of proportn to s numbers.

Now we have open advocy for gay , wh Pope Francis g out wh sympathetic statements for gay , and makg that very odd statement that a prit nfsn should five a sner who has no tentn of endg his sng. What else uld that be but a green light to the gay liftyle?

We also have a Synodal msag om our rdal, Robert McElroy, wonrg about the "monic" rejectn of parishners of gay advocy the Church.