UNITED STATES
The Stranger
by Dan Savage
No one could’ve predicted:
A French priest who has written disparagingly about gay people and acted as a counselor to student and novice priests struggling with their sexuality has been accused of having sex with male clients. Monsignor Tony Anatrella — who earlier this year told new Bishops they are not obligated to report a suspected abuser to authorities — is still regularly consulted on matters of sexuality by the Vatican. One of his accusers said that Anatrella engaged in various sex acts with him in the Monsignor’s Paris office, with the activity allegedly occurring up until a few years ago. Daniel Lamarca claims Anatrella said he could rid him of his “pseudo-homosexuality” by performing sex acts.
I’m shocked — shocked — that someone who described homosexuality as “a profound immaturity of human sexuality” and called on the Catholic Church to ordain only “men mature in their masculine identity” would be having lots and lots and lots of gay sex.
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