Argentine archbishop: in some dioceses there is a gay priests’ lobby
Staff Reporter
10 December, 2018
Archbishop Aguer welcomed Pope Francis’s recent remarks on homosexuality in the priesthood
The Archbishop Emeritus of La Plata has said that some dioceses have a “high” proportion of gay clergy who constitute a “kind of lobby”.
Archbishop Héctor Aguer made the comment on the Channel 9 television programme Keys for a Better World. He was responding to Pope Francis’s remarks on homosexuality in the priesthood. The archbishop’s comment was reported by
ACI Prensa, an EWTN-owned Catholic news agency based in Lima.
He cited Pope Francis saying that homosexuality had become
“fashionable” and that this mentality had also entered the Church.
“The Pope has touched a key point, which did not used to be talked about,” he said. “I can assure you that, in some dioceses, the percentage of homosexual priests is high, and that they usually cover for each other; they do not come out of the closet … they constitute a kind of lodge or lobby, even those who are ‘non-practising’.” . . .
