Church blasts gay priests leading ‘double life’
The Catholic Church in Italy, still reeling from the clerical sex abuse scandal, lashed out Friday at gay priests who are leading a double life, urging them to come out of the closet and leave the priesthood. In a statement Friday, the Rome diocese denounced those priests who were leading a “double life,” said they
The Catholic Church in Italy, still reeling from the clerical sex abuse scandal, lashed out Friday at gay priests who are leading a double life, urging them to come out of the closet and leave the priesthood.
In a statement Friday, the Rome diocese denounced those priests who were leading a “double life,” said they shouldn’t have been ordained and promised that the church would rigorously pursue anyone who is behaving in a way that wasn’t dignified for a priest.
It insisted that the vast majority of Rome’s 1,300 priests were truthful to their vocations and were “models of morality for all”, AP Google News reports.