Is the Pope Gay?

[Joe Guy]

Vatican dismisses reports linking pope's resignation to gay conclave discovery

The Vatican has attacked reports in the Italian media linking Pope Benedict XVI's resignation to the alleged discovery of a network of gay prelates as attempts to influence the cardinals in their choice of a new pontiff.

The Vatican secretariat of state said in a statement: "It is deplorable that as we draw closer to the time of the beginning of the conclave … that there be a widespread distribution of often unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories that cause serious damage to persons and institutions."

The statement was made as Pope Benedict XVI had his final meeting with senior clerics, lamenting the "evil, suffering and corruption" that have defaced God's creation in a final address to Vatican officials.

Benedict spoke on Saturday at the end of a week-long spiritual retreat coinciding with Lent, the period of 40 days (excluding Sundays) leading up to Easter. For the past week, Italian cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi has led the Vatican on meditations that have covered everything from the family to denouncing the "divisions, dissent, careerism, jealousies" that afflict the Vatican bureaucracy.

Ravasi's blunt critique of the dysfunction within the Vatican Curia comes as cardinals from around the world are arriving for the final days of Benedict's papacy and the conclave to elect his successor. Bureaucratic reform is a high priority for the next pope.

The pontiff's speech follows a report that has linked his resignation to the discovery of a network of gay prelates in the Vatican, some of whom have reportedly been targeted by blackmailers.

The Italian daily newspaper La Republica said the pope decided to resign on 17 December – the day he received a dossier compiled by three cardinals delegated to look into the so-called "Vatileaks" affair.

Last May Pope Benedict's butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested and charged with stealing leaked papal correspondence that depicted the Vatican as a seething hotbed of intrigue and infighting.

The newspaper said the cardinals described a number of factions, including one whose members were "united by sexual orientation". It added that some Vatican officials had been subjected to "external influence" from laymen with whom they had links of a "worldly nature". La Republica said this was a clear reference to blackmail.

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[Gob]

Oh come on, a man who wears a skirt and hangs out in an all male institution, who thinks women a re second class citizens, gay?

[dgs49]

Given the lifestyle that is offered by the seminary and parish priesthood, it would not be the least bit surprising if the percentage of Hoe-Moe-Sexuals in the Catholic priesthood were a great deal higher than in the overall population.

[Scooter]

Is a hoe-moe-sexual any relation to a knee-grow?

[Sean]

Given the lifestyle that is offered by the seminary and parish priesthood, it would not be the least bit surprising if the percentage of Hoe-Moe-Sexuals in the Catholic priesthood were a great deal higher than in the overall population.

Not only that but (in Ireland at least) joining the priesthood has long been seen as a way to 'cure' homosexuality. Young Catholic men who were horrified by their urges would decide that a life of chastity was their only hope.

Worked out well...

[rubato]

Given the lifestyle that is offered by the seminary and parish priesthood, it would not be the least bit surprising if the percentage of Hoe-Moe-Sexuals in the Catholic priesthood were a great deal higher than in the overall population.

Not only that but (in Ireland at least) joining the priesthood has long been seen as a way to 'cure' homosexuality. Young Catholic men who were horrified by their urges would decide that a life of chastity was their only hope.

Worked out well...

They knew what the drug companies all know; more profitable to treat and maintain a chronic condition rather than cure it.



yrs,
rubato

[oldr_n_wsr]

Is the Pope Gay?

How would one (any outsider) know whether someone was gay or not when that person lives a life of celebecy? (sp?)

[Gob]

We only assume he is celebate, don't we? Who knows how many cassocks are being lifted nighty in the Vatican.

"Monk's chain" anyone?

[Sean]

Celibate... Or maybe he buys a bit.

Who knows?

[Econoline]

[Gob]

Gold!!

[dgs49]

Which animals, pray tell, suck each other's dicks?

I'm dying to know.

[Scooter]

Ask and you shall receive:

Animals of several species are documented as engaging in both autofellatio and oral sex. Although easily confused by laypeople, this is a separate and sexually oriented behaviour, distinct from non-sexual grooming or the investigation of scents.

Auto-fellatio or oral sex in animals is documented in wolves,[45] goats, primates, hyaenas, bats[46] and sheep

Trying to find yourself a date, are you?

[Gob]

Our two puppies do it.

[oldr_n_wsr]

They are buddies, a pack of two. Dogs use smell/scent to distinguish each other. They are comfortable with each other and enjoy each others scents when they are relaxing. Their scent sence is like 1000 times bettter then ours so they have a different perspective (in that area) than we do.
Dogs say "HI" by sniffing each others butts. Who are we to judge.