The witch hunt for gay priests | America Magazine

Father James Martin, S.J. gave an important speech in Dublin at the World Assembly of Families a couple of days ago.  No speech like that has ever been given at a Vatican sponsored event.  Right wing Catholics collected 15,000 signatures calling for him to be disinvited.
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The witch hunt for gay priests | America Magazine
by  James Martin, S.J.

It is not surprising that Catholics are furious about the latest sex abuse crisis, which began, most recently, with accusations of abuse and harassment against the former cardinal-archbishop of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick; deepened with the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing 70 years of abuse in the Commonwealth; and intensified with the former Vatican nuncio to the United States Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s 11-page “testimony” accusing many high-ranking clerics, including Pope Francis, with covering up the crimes.

Catholics have a right to be angry at abusive clergy, at bishops who covered up their crimes and at the sclerotic clerical system that allowed the crimes and cover-ups to go unpunished for decades.

But the intensity of hate and level of anger directed at gay priests are unprecedented in my memory. 

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