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Eighty per cent of Vatican priests are gay according to explosive new book
Daily Mail ^ | 12 February 2019

Posted on 02/13/2019 7:30:21 AM PST by navysealdad

Eighty per cent of Vatican priests are gay and living in the closet, according to an explosive new book to be published next week. The 570-page expose, titled In the Closet of the Vatican, claims that four in five clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are homosexuals - but aren't necessarily sexually active. French sociologist and journalist Frederic Martel, who spent four years conducting 1,500 interviews for the book, found that some priests maintained discreet long term relationships, while others lived double lives having casual sex with gay partners and using male prostitutes.

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To: navysealdad

21 posted on 02/13/2019 7:59:27 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: navysealdad

DC not the only swamp needs draining.


22 posted on 02/13/2019 8:02:04 AM PST by karnage
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To: navysealdad

For those who say marriage for priests would add to the non-deviant non-pedophile numbers——

Cartoon showing 2 priests walking.

1st priest: Do you think marriage for priests will become accepted by the Church hierarchy?

2nd priest: Not in our time but in our children’s time.


23 posted on 02/13/2019 8:03:01 AM PST by frank ballenger ( the End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: navysealdad

What do they mean by “in the closet”? Are they afflicted with homosexual desires but true to their vow of celibacy, or are they acting upon their perverted desires but hiding it?

One deserves our respect and prayers; the others must be removed and are in desperate need of prayers.


24 posted on 02/13/2019 8:07:27 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: navysealdad

Explains why they only grudgingly allowed a limited amount of girls to fill in the role of altar boys.


25 posted on 02/13/2019 8:11:49 AM PST by grumpygresh (The only check on a rogue DOJ and FBI is jury nullification.)
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To: navysealdad
"Eighty per cent of Vatican priests are gay and living in the closet..."

As opposed to the Episcopal church, whose 80% are all out of the closet already....

26 posted on 02/13/2019 8:13:01 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: billorites

My mom used to have conversations with nuns that would curl your toenails. It seems those who don’t have sex are the ones who are completely obsessed with it.

One of them wanted to buy 18 copies of The Joy of Sex for her health class at a Catholic high school. I kid you not.

My mom ended up concluding that a lifetime of celibacy does really bad things to the female brain.


27 posted on 02/13/2019 8:14:42 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: navysealdad

If they aren’t having sex or if they have sworn off it for the desire to pursue Christ or just out of obedience to Scripture, should they count as “gay”? I don’t believe so. Therefore, I don’t trust the numbers.

I do believe a higher number of Catholic Clergy are gay, up to an including Pope Francis, but I don’t want to smear all of them just as all of them are not pedophiles (which is worse). The problem is pride and the unwillingness to confess the sin in their lives and repent from it.


28 posted on 02/13/2019 8:26:13 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: navysealdad

There’s a good movie called “Spotlight” that was a quasi documentary about this subject. The numbers they presented concerning catholic priests in Boston were similar.


29 posted on 02/13/2019 8:44:24 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: navysealdad

They aren’t necessarily sexual active

Whew I was worried for a sec

This is Satan’s handiwork


30 posted on 02/13/2019 8:46:39 AM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: LouAvul

Just got through watching it. Good movie. Chilling.


31 posted on 02/13/2019 9:42:30 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: navysealdad

That reassuring...I thought the percentage would have been higher.


32 posted on 02/13/2019 10:44:39 AM PST by damper99 (pu)
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To: central_va
Celibate gay is not an oxymoron...

IF by "gay" you simply mean "male attracted to males."

I'm fairly sure there are lifelong-celibate gays who have passed safely through this veil of tears and are now rejoicing with the Blessed before the throne of God.

Of course, if by "gay" you mean "engages in sexual relations with persons of the same sex", then of course "celibate gay" an oxymoron in a tutu and a spangly tiara.

33 posted on 02/13/2019 11:49:46 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and your mascara runs.)
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To: allendale
Not if male-attracted men are excluded from seminary and ordination.
34 posted on 02/13/2019 11:51:45 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and your mascara runs.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I'm fairly sure there are lifelong-celibate gays who have passed safely through this veil of tears and are now rejoicing with the Blessed before the throne of God.

How about life long celibate pedophiles? Are they rejoicing too?

35 posted on 02/13/2019 11:57:28 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: grumpygresh
I disagree. In many dioceses (Seattle-Hunthausen, Milwaukee-Weakland) unchaste homosexual clerics were the very ones who initiated and enthusiastically pushed this innovation of "altar girls".

Maybe because of their hostility toward tradition in general? Or part of this thing about genderfluid sex roles?

36 posted on 02/13/2019 11:59:34 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and your mascara runs.)
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To: central_va
Both pedophilia and homosexuality are intrinsically disordered. They are not, however, a personal sin unless consented to in thought, word or deed.

Temptation afflicts everybody. For instance, a married man's secret attraction to a random woman. However, if it is not a deliberate fantasy, a plan, or an act, it is not a sin.

If there's consent, there's sin. Jesus told his (male) disciples that to even look at a woman to lust fter her, is a sin. I'm tellin' it straight.

There are other kinds of disordered desire. Like for alcohol. Opiates. Personal dominance. Money, power, and status.

The Gospels warn an awful lot about that.

If freedom from every trace of concupiscence (disordered desire) is needed to be saved, brother, we're doomed.

37 posted on 02/13/2019 12:15:41 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Cry, and your mascara runs.)
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To: navysealdad

Which explains the rampant boy abuse.


38 posted on 02/13/2019 12:18:28 PM PST by fwdude (Think about it: Blacks were made slaves in Africa, but were made free men in America.)
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To: navysealdad

Father Steve
Father Michael
Father William
Father Peter
Father Charles

In the parish, two out of five are gay.

In the Vatican, 4 out of five are gay.


39 posted on 02/13/2019 3:03:51 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: navysealdad

It’s only logical if you think about it, really.


40 posted on 02/13/2019 3:09:37 PM PST by myerson
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