Jason Berry, a Louisiana journalist, broke the first stories of sexual abuse by priests in 1985. He wrote Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children and, with Gerald Renner, Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II.

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.

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