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The Secret Lives of the Vatican’s Gay Cardinals, Monks, and Other Clergy Members
Despite headlines about a almighty “gay lobby” inside the Vatican, and a new Pope promising reform, the Catholic Church’s gay cardinals, monks, and opposite clergy inhabit a hidden netherworld. In Rome, the author learns how they navigate the chancy paradox of their lives. raw but for the towel around his waist, a man of a certain age sat by himself, bent slightly fore as if praying, in a area of the sauna at a gym in central Rome.