On Feb. 27, 2004, the lay-led Office of Child and Youth Protection of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released a survey on the cumulative toll of sexual abuse inflicted on children by priests during the past 50 years. The office commissioned experts from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York to […]

The ReligiousTolerance.org article “Homosexual orientation among Catholic seminarian students” includes a list of the primary people who study this question and their research.

Read a July 10, 2012 article from the Huffington Post about a book a gay priest wrote revealing he’s married and non-celibate.

Read a June 12, 2012, article from the Huffington Post about a gay priest’s support of same-sex marriage.

Read an article posted on U.S. Catholic chronicling a priest’s experience coming out.

Read a Feb. 19, 2013, article from the Daily Mail detailing how an African cardinal blamed gay priests for the child sex abuse scandal.

Read “Thou shalt not allow homosexuals to become Catholic priests,” an Oct. 2, 2005, New York Daily News opinion piece by the Rev. John Trigilio Jr., president of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy and co-author of Catholicism for Dummies (For Dummies, 2003).

Read a Nov. 25, 2005,  opinion piece in the LA Times written by a former priest.

Read a Feb. 25, 2013, article from the Telegraph in support of gay priesthood.