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Gay Dating Website for Priests Uncovered in Vatican

By Cec Busby
Gay News Network
June 19, 2013

http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/world/11225-gay-dating-website-for-priests-uncovered-in-vatican.html


[Venerabilis]

Venerablis, a website run out of the Vatican, has been reported as being a gay dating site for Catholic priests.

The site, whose credo is emblazoned on the homepage as a ‘website for “homosensible Roman Catholic priests’, features chatrooms in five different languages.

Catholic writer Vittorio Messori  aka Eponymous Flower, stumbled upon the site recently and discovered sexual encounters in process in the Venerablis’ chatrooms and face-to-face hook-ups being arranged between members.

Examples in the Italian chatroom include:

My name is Luca from Milan and would like to meet a priest with serious intentions to associate with him.  

Anonymous wrote: Good day, I am 67 years old, I had friendships with priests who were important for my spiritual, personal and sexual life... I would like to be contacted by priests in Rome again and to experience these feelings, PS: I am a teacher and guarantee discretion for me and for everyone who answers me.

I'm a married man of 50 years, looking for gay priests for a discrete friendship in the area of (name of city)."

Hi, my name is Marco from (city name), an ex-seminarian seeking young priest.

While the site’s user communicate with a unique computer generated ID, Messori uncovered several personal email addresses and phone numbers whilst investigating the website.

The site’s discovery comes just weeks after Pope Francis’ comment on a gay lobby operating within the Catholic Church...




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