Eighty Percent of Catholic Priests Are Gay. And a ‘Gay Cabal’ Rules the Vatican.

Eighty percent of Catholic priests are gay

Some of the most senior clerics in the Roman Catholic church who have vociferously attacked homosexuality are themselves gay. …

Eighty percent of priests working at the Vatican are gay, although not necessarily sexually active, it is claimed in the [new] book, In the Closet of the Vatican.

(The Guardian, February 12, 2019)

That’s hardly surprising. I’ve been highlighting this for years. What percent of priests are pedophiles? That is the question.

Church leaders are loath to distinguish between gay priests and pedophile priests. They fear doing so would out them as gay hypocrites.

They’d rather people think pedophile priest is redundant. Which, of course, taints all priests as pedophiles. Granted, this might be a distinction without a difference. After all, it seems all priests are complicit in the systemic sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church.

That’s why this book about gay priests is, by association, one about pedophile priests. Theodore E. McCarrick personifies both.

So his unprecedented defrocking just days ago damns the culture of sexual predation and hypocrisy that defines the Church.

Pope Francis has expelled Theodore E. McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, from the priesthood, after an expedited canonical process that found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians over decades. …

It appears to be the first time that a cardinal or bishop in the United States has been defrocked, or laicized, from the Roman Catholic Church, and the first time any cardinal has been laicized for sexual abuse.

(The New York Times, February 16, 2019)

After all, there’s nothing pedophile about McCarrick sexually abusing adult seminarians. Indeed, it’s the gay equivalence of a man sexually abusing women.

Yet, the pope’s punishment appears to be another attempt at a cover-up. It’s no different from the way the Church has covered up for priests who sexually abused children.

McCarrick (88), who stepped down from active ministry this summer after credible allegations of sexual abuse of seminarians and children, has moved to a home for priests in Kansas to live out a ‘life of prayer and penance,’ as directed by the Vatican.

(National Catholic Reporter, September 28, 2018)

Frankly, it’s akin to Germany sentencing an 88-year-old Nazi to a cushy Munich retirement home with the government footing the bill. To be fair, though, Germany has not spent decades covering up and enabling Nazi crimes. Whereas the Catholic Church has spent centuries covering up and enabling pedophile crimes.

The Church is merely doing for McCarrick in broad daylight what it has been secretly doing for others since time immemorial. But I digress.

A gay cabal rules the Vatican

As it happens, I have already defused this book’s “explosive” findings. I did so by analogizing gays to the Catholic Church as Blacks are to the NBA. For the record, the NBA is seventy-five percent black.

Also, “not necessarily sexually active” smacks of the infamous “it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.” Sorry. Bill.

“It Is Not a Closet. It Is a Cage.” That was the banner headline for a lengthy feature in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times. The sub-heading read as follows:

Gay catholic priests speak out. The crisis over sexuality in the Catholic Church goes beyond abuse. It goes to the heart of the priesthood, into a closet that is trapping thousands of men.

But it’s hard to feel sympathy for them. After all, caged gay priests have been complicit in the exploits of pedophile priests. Not to mention reports about gay priest sub-cultures. They throb from Rome to Bangkok and all major cities between. And they make hedonists from the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah look chaste. So cry me a friggin’ river!

By the way, the cage their pedophile brethren might complain of is like the Serengeti. There, pedophile priests are the lions roaming free. And little children are the gazelles sitting like ducks for their plucking.

Catholic Church policing itself

It is self-evident that the Church cannot police itself. Yet, Francis is convening a global bishops conference tomorrow to contemplate just that. They plan to discuss ways of protecting children from sexual abuse. So what, pray tell, have they been doing to protect children for the past two thousand years?

Of course, this will amount to nothing more than a pontificating farce. Because the only way to protect children from predatory priests is to prosecute them. But they must target not only the pedophile priests but the gay bishops who fail to report their crimes as well.

In other words, the Vatican should abandon the pretense of punishing pedophile priests. That invariably meant moving them from one parish to another, where they abuse more children.

The law should compel bishops to report any sexual abuse – not to the Church but to the police. Because they lack the moral compulsion to do the right thing.

The Church must exorcise the hypocrisy shrouding homosexuality. The Vatican should begin by abandoning the pretense of celibacy. It should allow priests to marry (women or men).

I had cause to damn the hypocrisy of priests fathering children only weeks ago. So this revelation seems an uncanny coincidence:

The Vatican has revealed that it maintains secret guidelines for priests who father children despite their vows of celibacy.

Vatican spokesman [Alessandro] Gisotti told CNN that … under the secret rules, a priest who fathered children was requested to leave the priesthood and ‘assume his responsibility as a parent, dedicating himself exclusively to the child.’

(CNN, February 19, 2019)

But reports are that many priests are refusing to acknowledge paternity. And they are using the Vatican’s well-trodden pedophile protection program to help them escape responsibility.

But this, too, is not surprising. After all, the Church is notorious for using convents as adoption factories. That’s how it compelled unwed Catholic mothers to cover up pregnancies. And no doubt, some of those mothers were resident nuns.

Call me a secular heretic. But I’m no hypocrite. I’ve been commenting on gay priests in a consistent fashion for years. Notably, I have