Gays Archives

Vatican removes reference to ‘psychiatric help’ for gay kids

Associated Press, Vatican
Aug 28, 2018

The Vatican has scrubbed from the official transcript of Pope Francis’s in-flight press conference a comment that young gay children might seek psychiatric help.

Pope doesn’t want ‘practicing’ gays in seminaries, reports say

Vatican
May 24, 2018

According to various Italian news reports following a closed-door session with Italian bishops, Pope Francis on Monday said that men with “deeply rooted” homosexual tendencies, or who “practice homosexual acts,” shouldn’t be allowed into the seminary.

Abuse victim says Pope Francis told him “being gay doesn’t matter”

Vatican
May 21, 2018

“Juan Carlos, that you are gay doesn’t matter,” Francis reportedly told clerical sexual abuse survivor Juan Carlos Cruz. “God made you like this and loves you like this and it doesn’t matter to me. The pope loves you like this, you have to be happy with who you are.”

Cleric alleges Cameroon bishop killed for resisting gay priests

Global Church
Aug 5, 2017

At a memorial Mass this week for a Cameroon bishop who died under mysterious circumstances, a cleric who’s taken over as the administrator of the diocese charged that the authors of the murder were in the church, “pretending to sympathize,” and that the bishop died for standing up against gays in the priesthood.

Irish prelate pulls seminarians over worries about a ‘gay culture’

Catholic News Agency, Global Church
Aug 7, 2016

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has transferred his seminarians away from Ireland’s main seminary, St. Patrick’s College, after anonymous accusations emerged of a gay culture at the institution, and is also calling for whistle-blowers to come forward with hard evidence of misconduct.

What if papal statements had play-by-play like baseball?

Analysis, Vatican
Jul 4, 2016

During a recent 19-inning baseball game, an announcer exclaimed, “Wow, did that pitch have a lot of spin!” There’s a fair bit of spin on the Vatican beat too, and it beckons the thought, “What if there were play-by-play calls on papal statements?”