Pope’s biographer: ‘Why do you say that our Lord did not have homosexual tendencies?’
Austen Ivereigh, has been the Director of Public Affairs for the late Cardinal Murphy O’Connor, was a founder of the Catholic media organization “Catholic Voices,” and has written a biography of Pope Francis: he is what you might call a “professional Catholic.” Discussing the latest claims about priests working in the Vatican who are homosexual, Ivereigh suggests: The issue, as the priests make clear, isn’t celibacy and chastity, but having to hide who they are. The denial makes it impossible to live the vow in freedom. That’s what they’re saying. This is a convenient argument for someone who wants to say that the Church has made homosexuality into a problem by her negative teachings about it. Get rid of the teachings, and you’d get rid of the problem! A Twitter user replied, in Spanish (this is the Google translation): They must serve God and his people without the entanglement of manifesting or hiding a hidden tendency. The priests, I believe, must be hetero...