Gay in vatican city

Credibility of Catholic church at stake in sexual abuse summit. Catholic diocese of Oakland releases list of 45 men accused of sexual abuse. The legal code regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Vatican City is based on the Italian Zanardelli Code of , since the founding of the sovereign state of Vatican City in Despite headlines about a powerful “gay lobby” within the Vatican, and a new Pope promising reform, the Catholic Church’s gay cardinals, monks, and other clergy inhabit a hidden netherworld.

Pope defrocks ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick over abuse claims. Vatican reveals it has secret rules for priests who father children. Some were in denial about their sexuality. Early in his salacious new book about homosexuality in the Vatican, the French journalist Frederic Martel asks a source to estimate the number of Vatican clergy who are “part of this.

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Martel, a former adviser to the French government, conducted 1, interviews while researching the book, including with 41 cardinals, 52 bishops and monsignors, 45 papal ambassadors or diplomatic officials, 11 Swiss guards and more than priests and seminarians, according to a report on the Catholic website the Tablet.

Homosexual activity in Vatican City is legal. Some of the most senior clerics in the Roman Catholic church who have vociferously attacked homosexuality are themselves gay, according to a book to be published next week. The author found that some gay priests accepted their sexuality and a few maintained discreet relationships, but others sought high-risk casual encounters.

You have to be happy with who you are. It is being published in eight languages across 20 countries next Wednesday, coinciding with the opening day of a conference at the Vatican on sexual abuse, to which bishops from all over the world have been summoned. Eighty per cent of priests working at the Vatican are gay, although not necessarily sexually active, it is claimed in the book, In the Closet of the Vatican.

Reuse this content. This article is more than 6 years old. The laws are based on the Zardanelli penal code from (which was in force at the time of the founding of Vatican City). More on this story. Most viewed. Francis has riled his conservative critics in the Vatican over his apparently softer tone towards gay people.

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