Key person at Vatican II confesses to concealing homosexual sex life
93-year-old Gregory Baum , a famed Canadian Catholic ex-priest, has in his latest book revealed that he secretly led an active homosexual life for decades. Baum, who was a peritus or expert at the Second Vatican Council , reportedly composed the first draft of the conciliar document Nostra aetate , the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions . Baum advocated for the elimination of the Church’s efforts to encourage Jews to recognize Christ as the Messiah and has since pushed social justice and liberation theology. The influential cleric reveals candidly in The Oil Has Not Run Dry: The Story of My Theological Pathway , “I did not profess my own homosexuality in public because such an act of honesty would have reduced my influence as a critical theologian.” “I was eager to be heard as a theologian trusting in God as salvator mundi and committed to social justice, liberation theology, and global solidarity.” Baum was also influential in t