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Experts on sex offenders have news for Vatican
Abusers' behavior does not stem from orientation, studies show

By MARY GAIL FRAWLEY-O’DEA

[… The criminal behaviors of sexual perpetrators] stem not from their sexual orientation but rather reflect their psychological immaturity, arrested development, or antisocial, criminal proclivities, a fact relentlessly presented to the Vatican and just as relentlessly ignored.
(complete article from NCRonline)

Say What?!!
Fallout from the Vatican “Instruction”

A Priest's Confession
by Jill Tucker
"I knew at a very early age that I was different"

Gay priest leaves parish he loves

"He's the most deeply spiritual person I've ever met," said Sue Spiersch, 62, a lifelong Catholic and a member of St. Joseph Parish in Alameda, California since 1972. She said Danyluk made a congregation of strangers into friends. (more)

Ordaining Gay Men. America Editorial (America, November 11, 2002). (Reprinted in GayCatholicForum.org with permission of America Magazine).

Two articles appeared in America Magazine that helped fire the discussion on ordaining gay men. We provide a link to them here.


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Ordination and Same Sex Attraction. Rev. Andrew Baker, an official of the Roman Curia, makes the case for Rome! (America, September 30, 2002).

Yes, Gay Men Should be Ordained. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton (America, September 30, 2002).

A gay man who has been a priest for 25 years tells us what it means to him ---


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And then there is the story of a priest who was “out” when he was alive and made us all proud in his death.

Father Mychal Judge Becomes Larger Than Life. NYC Fire Chaplain victim #1 on 9/11/01. (New York Times, September 27, 2002).




		Father Judge was carried from the rubble on Sept. 11. Pope John Paul II later received his helmet as a gift.


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