The Associated Press website reports today (July 24, 2010) that the Catholic Church in Italy lashed out yesterday at gay priests who are leading a double life, urging them to come out of the closet and leave the priesthood.
The Diocese of Rome issued the strongly worded statement after the conservative "Panorama" newsweekly said in a cover story and accompanying video that it had interviewed three gay priests in Rome and accompanied them to gay clubs and bars and to sexual encounters with strangers.
In a statement yesterday, the Rome diocese denounced those priests who were leading a "double life," said they should not have been ordained, and promised that the church would rigorously pursue anyone who is behaving in a way that was not dignified for a priest.
It insisted that the vast majority of Rome's 1,300 Catholic priests are truthful to their vocations and are "models of morality for all."
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