A lead organizer for the Vatican's summit on clergy sexual abuse this week has said homosexuality is neither a cause of abuse nor a central problem in the priesthood. Read More
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The New York Times published a major feature on gay priests earlier this week, the latest in a series of media stories on the topic about which there is renewed interest due to the scapegoating of these men for the clergy sex abuse scandal. Read More
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A prominent gay Catholic writer has added their commentary to the debate over gay priests, suggesting the issue is a "giant, unsustainable paradox" that has become a crisis in the Catholic Church. Read More
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Ahead of its publication, the National Catholic Reporter released an excerpt from the book "Inside the Closet of the Vatican" by Frédéric Martel. Read More
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A new book on homosexuality and the Vatican is being released this week, one which includes the claim, among several controversial assertions, that 80 percent of priests at the Vatican are gay. Read More
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" I stay because, whereas once I was deeply ensconced within the church, I am now on the outside looking in and I am forced to see through my own eyes and experience, in my own flesh, what my LGBTQ brothers and sisters have long seen and experienced because of this institution." Read More
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Gay pastoral ministers in the Netherlands have published an open letter to Pope Francis protesting the Vatican's ban on gay priests and claiming the Gospel's credibility is imperiled by the Church's attitude on homosexuality. Read More
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In seeming defiance of a Vatican ban on gay men in the priesthood, German dioceses have announced they will accept candidates with homosexual orientations assuming these men remain celibate. Read More
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The bishop of San Diego has rejected parishioners' claims that a gay subculture exists among the diocese's priests and seminarians and refused to blame the clergy sexual abuse scandal on gay priests. Read More
https://i0.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/bishop-mcelry.gif?fit=236%2C330&ssl=1330236Robert Shine, Associate Editorhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngRobert Shine, Associate Editor2019-01-19 01:00:302019-01-18 18:12:32Bishop Rejects Claims of Gay Subculture in Diocese, But Falls Short of Universal Denial
A top German bishop has claimed homosexuality is what is behind the church's clergy sexual abuse scandal, the latest church official to promote a disproven theory assailing gay priests. Read More
https://i0.wp.com/www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Cardinal-Walter-Brandmuller-1.jpg?fit=800%2C534&ssl=1534800Robert Shine, Associate Editorhttps://www.newwaysministry.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/logo_nwm-1.pngRobert Shine, Associate Editor2019-01-07 01:00:032019-01-06 17:40:10German Cardinal Promotes Disproven Theory Linking Homosexuality and Sexual Abuse
