As many as 40 per cent of priests in the United States are gay, Father Cozzens estimates. Donald Cozzens, an American priest who wrote a book on the topic.Īccording to scholars, as well as current and former priests, the priesthood in North America is a vocation with a disproportionately high number of homosexuals. The priesthood in the 21st century will be perceived as a "predominantly gay profession," says Rev. In the midst of a campaign against same-sex marriage, and still reeling from the crisis of pedophilia that has shaken its foundations in recent years, the church is in no mood to discuss what to many is an open secret: that seminaries in North America are becoming significantly gay places. "People continue to think of priests as sexless beings, or as 'Father' as being a celibate heterosexual." LaRade, 47, whose faint French accent reveals his Acadian roots in Cape Breton. But there was a gay sensibility," said Mr. "That is not to say people were having wild sex in the washroom.
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