The world turned upside down, in some respects! The intimate stories of these men who give an image of piety in public and lead a quite different life in private, so different from one another, present us with a complex intrigue to unravel. I've often had a sense during my investigation that I've gone back in time and found myself in the 1930s or 1950s, years that I haven't known myself, with the dual mentality of the chosen people and the cursed people, which led one of the priests that I met often to say: 'Welcome to Sodoma!'. We will come across this archbishop several times again in the course of this book, the first in a long series of priests who described the reality of which I was already aware, but which many people will see as a fiction. Let it be clear that for me a priest or a cardinal should not be ashamed about being homosexual; I even think it should be one possible social status among others. How many are there? I don't need to introduce you to this cardinal who appears in public on the balcony of the Loggia, and who was caught up in a quickly suppressed case of prostitution; this other French cardinal who for a long time had an Anglican lover in America; or this other one who, in his youth, had a chain of adventures like the beads on a nun's rosary; not forgetting those who live with their boyfriends in the palaces of the Vatican, where I have met them; they introduced their companions as their assistants, their minutante, their deputy, their chauffeur, their valet, their factotum, even their bodyguard! But lots of people described this 'closet' to me. Lastly – alas! They'll say it's made up. What detours I am taking to say such simple things – things which, so shocking yesterday, are so banal today! Most of the monsignori who have spoken at the balcony of the Loggia of St Peter's, between the pontificate of Paul VI and that of Francis, to deliver the sad announcement of the death of the pope or, with frank gaiety, to say Habemus papam!, share the same secret. « Previous Page 1 of 1 Next ». In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy (French: Sodoma : Enquête au cœur du Vatican) is a book by Frédéric Martel, which was published in French by Éditions Robert Laffont in February 2019 as well as being simultaneously released in eight languages. Rumours? The National Catholic Reporter is a progressive national newspaper in the United States that reports on issues related to the Catholic Church. For a long time, as we will see, young Italians who discovered that they were homosexual, or who had doubts about their inclinations, chose the priesthood. Pope Francis “is today by far the most popular religious leader on the planet, and one of the most popular leaders of any sort,” he said. The lack of vocations has multiple causes, but the homosexual revolution is paradoxically one of the main forces behind it. They even suggest, when questioned, that by forbidding priests to marry, the Church has become sociologically homosexual; and that by imposing a continence that is against nature, and a secretive culture, it is partly responsible for the tens of thousands of instances of sexual abuse that are undermining it from within. Did they guess that the battle launched against gays by the Vatican of John Paul II and Benedict XVI was a war that was lost in advance? So these pariahs became initiates and made a strength of a weakness. How? Double life? There is, as Hamlet might have said, something rotten in the state of the Vatican. Some of them were worried about what I was going to reveal. So this book criticizes not the Church overall, but a very particular 'genre' within the gay community; it tells the story of the majority of those in the College of Cardinals and the Vatican. This approach to fact drags In the Closet of the Vatican down, as does its length. About In the Closet of the Vatican. Let's just say: they represent the great majority. Peter Stanford on In the Closet of the Vatican, by Frédéric Martel, who claims up to 80 per cent of the Catholic Church’s most senior figures are gay. War between gays, in short. Others, last of all, proved to be loquacious, excessively so, as if they had been waiting for so many years to come out of their silence. Francis has often repeated his criticisms of the 'hidden and often dissolute lives'; the ones who 'put make-up on their souls and live off make-up'; the 'lie' erected into a system that does 'a lot of harm, hypocrisy does a lot of harm: it's a way of life'. ROBERT MOYNIHAN Editor-in-chief, Founder/Publisher of Inside the Vatican magazine. I installed myself in Rome, one week every month, regularly inside the Vatican, thanks to the hospitality of senior prelates who sometimes revealed that they too were 'part of the parish'. They have a 'family resemblance'. The details, certainly, but also the great laws – and there are, as we will see, 14 general rules in this book. Lastly – alas! That's why he spends so much time denouncing fake devotees, whited sepulchres and hypocrites. – homosexuality is also one of the keys that explain the institutionalized cover-up of sexual crimes and misdemeanours, of which there are now tens of thousands. Anthony Egan SJ shares the power that he believes such a book could have for the Catholic Church today, scandal plagued as it is. Never, perhaps, have the appearances of an institution been so deceptive; and equally deceptive are the pronouncements about celibacy and the vows of chastity that conceal a completely different reality. By Mary Chalupsky Veteran Vatican reporter John L. Allen Jr. offered insights into the Francis papacy during the closing plenary session of the NACC national conference. There is, as Hamlet might have said, something rotten in the state of the Vatican. Never, perhaps, have the appearances of an institution been so deceptive; and equally deceptive are the pronouncements about celibacy and the vows of chastity that conceal a completely different reality. "In the Closet of the Vatican" - Latest News. So it is not a matter of judging these homosexuals, even the closeted ones – I like them! At first, of course, the pope was surprised by the extent of that 'malicious colony', its 'charming qualities' and its 'unbearable shortcomings' of which the French writer Marcel Proust wrote in his celebrated book Sodom and Gomorrah. He is an American journalist with a knowledge of five languages and a seasoned Vatican analyst. The Vatican says Francis received the resignation request, accepted it, and ordered McCarrick to a life of prayer and penance. How many are there? Because here reality goes beyond fiction,' I am told by a Franciscan friar, a man who has also worked and lived inside the Vatican for over thirty years. His phrase should be placed as an epigram at the start of this book: 'Behind rigidity something always lies hidden; in many cases, a double life.'. Do as I say, not as I do! Unlike those Vaticanologists, who denounce individual 'excesses' but in such a way as to conceal the 'system', I am less concerned with exposing these affairs than with revealing the very banal double life of most of the dignitaries of the Church. The Vatican has one of the biggest gay communities in the world, and I doubt whether, even in San Francisco's Castro, the emblematic gay quarter, though more mixed today, there are quite as many gays! Since arriving in Rome he has known that he is dealing with an organisation that is quite extraordinary in its way, and that isn't restricted, as people believed for a long time, to a few lost sheep. Opposition to Pope Francis Comes Out of the Closet | National Catholic Reporter. Rumours? Why? Magazine article National Catholic Reporter. Double life? Among them, alleged homosexuals, who were present in the Vatican every day, introduced me to their world of initiates. ', as the Poet says, are practising. In the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today. So this book criticizes not the Church overall, but a very particular 'genre' within the gay community; it tells the story of the majority of those in the College of Cardinals and the Vatican. It is not a matter of denouncing these men, nor of 'outing' them while they are alive. His phrase should be placed as an epigram at the start of this book: 'Behind rigidity something always lies hidden; in many cases, a double life.'. Many Catholics now have a sense of this lie without yet having been able to read the revelations in this book. The subject is: the intimate society of priests, their fragility, and the suffering bound up with forced celibacy, which has become a system. Whether they are 'practising', 'homophile', 'initiates', 'unstraights', 'wordly', 'versatile', 'questioning', or simply 'in the closet', the world I am discovering, with its 50 shades of gay, is beyond comprehension. Why did these men, who were used to being silent, agree to break the omertà? One that would be turned against the Church as soon as everyone became aware of its real motivations: a war waged between closeted homosexuals and gays who had come out! We’ll soon have a review and other commentary available. Updated regularly. By Grimm, William. I don't need to introduce you to this cardinal who appears in public on the balcony of the Loggia, and who was caught up in a quickly suppressed case of prostitution; this other French cardinal who for a long time had an Anglican lover in America; or this other one who, in his youth, had a chain of adventures like the beads on a nun's rosary; not forgetting those who live with their boyfriends in the palaces of the Vatican, where I have met them; they introduced their companions as their assistants, their minutante, their deputy, their chauffeur, their valet, their factotum, even their bodyguard! Francis knows that he has to move on the Church's stance, and that he will only be able to do this at the cost of a ruthless battle against all those who use sexual morality and homophobia to conceal their own hypocrisies and double lives. ', The reason for this, among the older cardinals, should be sought in the past: their stormy youths and roguish years before gay liberation explain their double lives and their homophobia in the old style. I've often had a sense during my investigation that I've gone back in time and found myself in the 1930s or 1950s, years that I haven't known myself, with the dual mentality of the chosen people and the cursed people, which led one of the priests that I met often to say: 'Welcome to Sodoma! Read Our Feature Series. 'You know, he's very practising. It's a system; and a huge herd. And then I travelled across the world, through more than thirty countries, among the clergies of Latin America, Asia, the United States and the Middle East, to collect over a thousand statements. Those conservatives, those traditionalists, those 'dubias', are in many cases the famous 'rigid people leading a double life' of whom Francis speaks so often. Because here reality goes beyond fiction,' I am told by a Franciscan friar, a man who has also worked and lived inside the Vatican for over thirty years. With the homosexual liberation of the 1970s, and particularly since the gay socialization of the 1980s, Catholic vocations, especially in European countries, have naturally fallen. I'm not the first to discuss this phenomenon. What detours I am taking to say such simple things – things which, so shocking yesterday, are so banal today! This pattern explains the war against Francis. The Vatican has one of the biggest gay communities in the world, and I doubt whether, even in San Francisco's Castro, the emblematic gay quarter, though more mixed today, there are quite as many gays! This Latino pope is the first to have used the word 'gay' rather than just 'homosexual' – and if we compare him with his predecessors, we may see him as the most 'gay-friendly' of modern pontiffs. All interviews were conducted under my real name, and my interlocutors had only to do a quick search on Google, Wikipedia, Facebook or Twitter to discover the details of my biography as a writer and reporter. (CNS/Vatican Media), Michelangelo's 16th-century frescoes in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican (CNS/Paul Haring). I installed myself in Rome, one week every month, regularly inside the Vatican, thanks to the hospitality of senior prelates who sometimes revealed that they too were 'part of the parish'. I'm not the first to discuss this phenomenon. Enter your email address to receive free newsletters from NCR. This report is said to reveal not so much the existence of a 'gay lobby', as was said, as the omnipresence of homosexuals in the Vatican, blackmail and harassment built into the system. Here is the pope: threatened and attacked on all sides and generally criticized, Francis is said to be 'among the wolves'. He is also a journalist at National Public Radio and the author of ten books, which have been translated and published in more than 25 countries. Fifty years after Stonewall, the gay revolution in the United States, the Vatican is the last bastion still to be liberated! Since then, the Argentinian has overturned the little games of connivance and the homosexual fraternity that developed clandestinely after Paul VI, were amplified under John Paul II, before becoming ungovernable under Benedict XVI, leading eventually to his downfall. The statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary adorns the 2020 Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square (photo: Edward Pentin / National Catholic Register) Edward Pentin Blogs December 15, 2020 How Will Joe Biden Build a Common Future? Editor's Note: We are running an excerpt from the new book In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy by Frédéric Martel.The book, to … They'll say it's made up. Evil gossip? Francis knows that he has to move on the Church's stance, and that he will only be able to do this at the cost of a ruthless battle against all those who use sexual morality and homophobia to conceal their own hypocrisies and double lives. In the Closet of the Vatican is published simultaneously in eight languages. About forty cardinals and hundreds of bishops, monsignori, priests and 'nuncios' (the pope's ambassadors) agreed to meet me. (CNS/Vatican Media), Michelangelo's 16th-century frescoes in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican (CNS/Paul Haring). Based in Kansas City, Missouri, NCR was founded by Robert Hoyt in 1964. Editor's Note: We are running an excerpt from the new book In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy by Frédéric Martel.The book, to … Ahead of its publication, the National Catholic Reporter released an excerpt from the book Inside the Closet of the Vatican by Frédéric Martel. Why? Most of the monsignori who have spoken at the balcony of the Loggia of St Peter's, between the pontificate of Paul VI and that of Francis, to deliver the sad announcement of the death of the pope or, with frank gaiety, to say Habemus papam!, share the same secret. This brilliant piece of investigative writing is based on four years' authoritative research, including extensive interviews with those in power. With his calm ego and relaxed attitude towards sexuality, Francis is an anomaly. The book, to be released Feb. 21, will be much talked about. 'How much filth there is in the Church,' said Cardinal Ratzinger, who also discovered the extent of the 'closet' through a secret report by three cardinals, the content of which was described to me and that was one of the major reasons for his resignation. Often, those priests, influential or otherwise, came on to me decorously, and some, with very little reluctance, more intensely. Editor's Note: We are running an excerpt from the new book In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy by Frédéric Martel. In fact, in an aside that had something of the disco-queen about it, another priest whispered to me in English: 'We are family!'. Francis has often denounced this duplicity in his morning homilies from Santa Marta. In most cases it isn't simply a general inclination, of a certain fluidity, homophilia or 'tendencies', as people said at the time, nor even repressed or sublimated sexuality, all equally prevalent in the Church of Rome. in English, magna cum laude from Harvard and a M.A and Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale. Join us if you love lots and lots of free news They are less so today because the resignation of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis's desire for reform have freed people's tongues. Vatican Addresses Catholic Trump Supporters Lulu Garcia Navarro talks with National Catholic Reporter's Joshua McElwee about an article that criticizes religious Trump supporters. Send your thoughts and reactions to Letters to the Editor. Cart; English. The author claims to have done exhaustive interviewing and research both personally and with a large team of interviewers and translators. They also know that sexual desire, and homosexual desire first and foremost, is one of the main engines and wellsprings of Vatican life. It’s been obvious for a long time, but now it is official: the National Catholic Reporter rejects the teachings of the Catholic Church on sexuality. r/nofeenews: Paywall-free news. Among them, alleged homosexuals, who were present in the Vatican every day, introduced me to their world of initiates. For a long time, the ways of the Lord remained, if I may say so, impenetrable. They are less so today because the resignation of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis's desire for reform have freed people's tongues. Some of them were worried about what I was going to reveal. Editor's Note: We are running an excerpt from the new book In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy by Frédéric Martel. Have the pope and his liberal theologians realized that priestly celibacy was a failure? – but of understanding their secret and collective way of life. Many Catholics now have a sense of this lie without yet having been able to read the revelations in this book. How? Here we will have to be counter-intuitive in order to understand it. One that would be turned against the Church as soon as everyone became aware of its real motivations: a war waged between closeted homosexuals and gays who had come out! He added: 'And if I told you all the things I know, you wouldn't believe it!'. He isn't part of the parish! In the Closet of the Vatican is a reminder that the experience of gay priests may differ from place to place. What they told me was unsayable for a long time. The New York Times bestselling account of corruption and hypocrisy at the heart of the Vatican. But lots of people described this 'closet' to me. Not the exceptions but the system and the model, what American sociologists call 'the pattern'. Send your thoughts and reactions to Letters to the Editor. It doesn't matter. È Bianca! The gay dimension doesn't explain everything, of course, but it is key for anyone wishing to understand the Vatican and its moral postures. Have the pope and his liberal theologians realized that priestly celibacy was a failure? ', The reason for this, among the older cardinals, should be sought in the past: their stormy youths and roguish years before gay liberation explain their double lives and their homophobia in the old style. There have been carefully chosen words about homosexuality: 'Who am I to judge?' IN THE CLOSET OF THE VATICAN: POWER, HOMOSEXUALITY, HYPOCRISY by Frédéric Martel (London: Bloomsbury Continuum … Opposition to Pope Francis Comes Out of the Closet | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. By failing to recognize the broadly homosexual dimension, we deprive ourselves of one of the keys to a greater understanding of most of the facts that have stained the history of the Vatican for decades: the secret motivations that led Paul VI to confirm the prohibition on artificial contraception, the rejection of condoms and the strict obligation of celibacy on the priesthood; the war against 'liberation theology'; the scandals of the Vatican Bank in the time of the famous Archbishop Marcinkus (he too was a homosexual); the decision to forbid condoms as a way of battling AIDS, even when the pandemic would lead to more than thirty-five million deaths; the VatiLeaks I and II affairs; the recurrent and often unfathomable misogyny of many cardinals and bishops; the resignation of Benedict XVI; the current rebellion against Pope Francis … Every time, homosexuality plays a central part that many people can only guess at, and the truth of which has never really been told. For a long time, the ways of the Lord remained, if I may say so, impenetrable. Let it be clear that for me a priest or a cardinal should not be ashamed about being homosexual; I even think it should be one possible social status among others. The first person who used that coded expression in front of me was an archbishop from the Roman Curia. Do as I say, not as I do! He knows his 'parish'. Comments on Distinctly Catholic by Michael Sean Winters at National Catholic Reporter. National Catholic Reporter is a nonprofit organization. Because the 'culture of secrecy', which was necessary to maintain silence about the huge presence of homosexuality inside the Church, has made it possible to hide sexual abuse, and for predators to benefit from this system of protection within the institution – even though paedophilia is not the subject of this book. In the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today. Many of these cardinals who 'have not loved women, for all the blood that flows in their veins! Others, last of all, proved to be loquacious, excessively so, as if they had been waiting for so many years to come out of their silence. During that long investigation I spent more than a hundred and fifty nights a year reporting, away from home, away from Paris. He earned his B.A. Yesterday, Bondings 2.0 reported on a new book about homosexuality and the Vatican that will be released this Thursday. And we might assume that this pope probably doesn't have the tendencies or inclination attributed to four of his recent predecessors. That's why he spends so much time denouncing fake devotees, whited sepulchres and hypocrites. It's not quite true: he's among the queens. The author claims to have done exhaustive interviewing and research both personally and with a large team of interviewers and translators. The phrase has been uttered, and this time the evidence cannot be challenged. Those conservatives, those traditionalists, those 'dubias', are in many cases the famous 'rigid people leading a double life' of whom Francis speaks so often. We might even say that there is an unwritten rule that can always be checked in this book: the more homophobic a priest is, the greater the chance that he himself will be homosexual. He's of the parish,' he stressed in a low voice, talking to me about the morals of a famous Vatican cardinal, a former 'minister' of John Paul II, who both of us knew well. 'The problem is that if you tell the truth about the "closet" and the special friendships in the Vatican, people won't believe you. It would have been difficult to publish a book like this twenty or even only ten years ago. It's an occupational hazard! What they told me was unsayable for a long time. However, Francis today is the object of a violent campaign, precisely because of his supposed liberalism on questions of sexual morality, by conservative cardinals who are very homophobic – and, most of them, secretly homosexual. The homosexual sociology of Catholicism also helps us to explain another reality: the end of vocations in Europe. “This Holy Father, […] We might also put forward the hypothesis, even though it isn't the subject of this book, that lesbianism is a major key to an understanding of convent life, whether that of cloistered orders or not. In a letter to Francis in 2015, Krzysztof Charamsa criticised what he called the Vatican’s hypocrisy in banning gay priests and said the clergy was “full of homosexuals”. So it is not a matter of judging these homosexuals, even the closeted ones – I like them! He isn't part of the parish! All interviews were conducted under my real name, and my interlocutors had only to do a quick search on Google, Wikipedia, Facebook or Twitter to discover the details of my biography as a writer and reporter. Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian … Practising, certainly, but still 'in the closet'. He knows his 'parish'. Others disclosed secrets to me, first in a whisper, then shortly afterwards, in a loud voice: actual scandals. Send your thoughts and reactions to Letters to the Editor. Read preview. Frédéric Martel (PhD) is a French writer and researcher. Friday, December 4, 2015. È Bianca! That is one of the mysteries of this book and my reason for writing it. Theological society backs Vatican-criticized nun | National Catholic Reporter. How Will Joe Biden Build a Common Future? Whether they are 'practising', 'homophile', 'initiates', 'unstraights', 'wordly', 'versatile', 'questioning', or simply 'in the closet', the world I am discovering, with its 50 shades of gay, is beyond comprehension. He lives in Paris. 'He's of the parish,' the priest whispers conspiratorially in my ear. The intimate stories of these men who give an image of piety in public and lead a quite different life in private, so different from one another, present us with a complex intrigue to unravel. – but of understanding their secret and collective way of life. And then I travelled across the world, through more than thirty countries, among the clergies of Latin America, Asia, the United States and the Middle East, to collect over a thousand statements. I'm like St Thomas: I need to check to believe. Make checks out to: NCR. Despite what the cardinal says, the recent history of Catholic Christianity shows that for the Vatican, "the unity of the church" precisely "require[s] a … The book, to be released Feb. 21, will be much talked about. Evil gossip? The Vatican said Domenico Giani, head of its police force since 2006 and Pope Francis' primary bodyguard, resigned "out of love for the church." The first person who used that coded expression in front of me was an archbishop from the Roman Curia. But that isn't my subject. Open secrets? Often, those priests, influential or otherwise, came on to me decorously, and some, with very little reluctance, more intensely. Many cardinals and priests who officiate at the Roman Curia, most of those who meet up in conclave beneath the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo – one of the most grandiose scenes of gay culture, peopled with virile bodies, surrounded by the Ignudi, those robust and beautiful naked young men – share the same 'inclinations'. During the four years of that investigation, I never concealed my identity as a writer, a journalist or a researcher when approaching cardinals and priests, who sometimes proved to be unapproachable. Not the exceptions but the system and the model, what American sociologists call 'the pattern'. So I had to spend a long time investigating and living immersed in the Church. Jim Martin, Editorial: Stop judging, and welcome LGBT Catholics 'in good faith', Exiting gay pastoral associate pledges continued LGBTQ work, Adopting political tactics at synod is understandable, but misplaced, Pope to gay priests: Be celibate or get out. I've often had a sense during my investigation that I've gone back in time and found myself in the 1930s or 1950s, years that I haven't known myself, with the dual mentality of the chosen people and the cursed people, which led one of the priests that I met often to say: 'Welcome to Sodoma!'. How Will Joe Biden Build a Common Future? 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