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It all depends on how you define "celibate" and "homosexual" (and perhaps also "man").

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Aug 08, 2018
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Content warning: discusses clergy abuse.

One of the least talked about clergy scandals involves one priest who sought to remove “gay” men from seminaries. Father Tony Anatrella was a Vatican “expert” on homosexuality for many years and one of the advisors behind the 2005 directive against admitting seminarians with “deeply rooted homosexual tendencies.” …

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