Saturday, July 24, 2010

Vatican Blasts Priests Who Lead Double Life; Urges Them to Come Out of Closet, Quit Jobs

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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