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Scrivener7

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2. Well, that's weird. The Catholic church doesn't care that there are gay priests out there dating.
Mon Mar 13, 2023, 06:15 PM
Mar 2023

From all my high school friends who spent time in seminary, the seminary was a happening place.

The Catholic church only cares if you and I KNOW there are lots of gay priests out there dating.

I recently read a study by a psychologist who has worked with priests for 20 years. He estimates that something over 50% of priests are not actually celibate, whether that means hetero or homosexual relationships. This study has been out there for years, and not much has changed.

An effect of this, the psychologist posits, is that those sexually active priests are vulnerable to overt and covert blackmail from pedophile priests.

The overt and covert blackmail allows the pedophile priests to demand protection from those who engage in normal heterosexual or normal homosexual activity, which goes against their vows of celibacy. That, the psychologist says, is why some priests are complicit in that they shuffle the criminal priests from place to place and never do anything to stop them.

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