VATICAN CITY
NPR
[with audio]
by SYLVIA POGGIOLI
June 13, 2013
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that homosexual acts are a grave sin. But the existence of active gay prelates in the Vatican bureaucracy known as the Roman Curia has been considered a poorly held secret for centuries.
Robert Mickens, Vatican correspondent for the British Catholic weekly The Tablet, says the normal definition of a lobby as an organized group of people pushing a specific agenda does not apply here.
He prefers to call it a gay subculture.
“Many of these people in the Vatican that are gay and even acting out are extremely conservative,” Mickens says. “These are not people that want to change the church’s teaching on homosexuality — not at all.
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