Is there a place in the Catholic Church for gay priests?
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When I was seventeen I made an appointment with my pastor. I sat down on the cracked leather sofa in his office and though I had never met him before, explained that I was interested in becoming a priest. I had just experienced my first conversion in between junior and senior year of high school. I had been attending my parish’s youth group on Sunday nights more or less as punishment for an all-night escapade that left my folks terrified and my mother offered an upcoming summer retreat as challenge. If I went, I could stop going to the youth group on Sunday nights if I wanted. So without knowing a soul, I boarded a bus for central Louisiana and the five thousand other high schoolers that would attend that Steubenville conference.
Is there a place in the Catholic Church for gay priests?
Is there a place in the Catholic Church for…
Is there a place in the Catholic Church for gay priests?
When I was seventeen I made an appointment with my pastor. I sat down on the cracked leather sofa in his office and though I had never met him before, explained that I was interested in becoming a priest. I had just experienced my first conversion in between junior and senior year of high school. I had been attending my parish’s youth group on Sunday nights more or less as punishment for an all-night escapade that left my folks terrified and my mother offered an upcoming summer retreat as challenge. If I went, I could stop going to the youth group on Sunday nights if I wanted. So without knowing a soul, I boarded a bus for central Louisiana and the five thousand other high schoolers that would attend that Steubenville conference.