Four In Five Vatican Priests Are Gay Book Claims

(The Guardian) Harriet Sherwood Feb. 12 2019 11:47 Some of the most senior clerics in the Roman Catholic church who have vociferously attacked homosexuality are themselves gay according to a book to be published next week. Eighty per cent of priests working at the Vatican are gay although not necessarily sexually active it is claimed in the book In the Closet of the Vatican. The 570-page book which the French journalist and author Frdric Martel spent four years researching is a startling account of corruption and hypocrisy at the heart of the Vatican" according to its British publisher Bloomsbury. It is being published in eight languages across 20 countries next Wednesday coinciding with the opening day of a conference at the Vatican on sexual abuse to which bishops from all over the world have been summoned.