Where Gay Priests Are Sent to Be ‘Cured’

Getting Laicized

Official Catholic doctrine still calls homosexuality ‘intrinsically disordered.’ Can the warm embrace of Pope Francis change that?

Published Oct. 6 2015 12:10PM EDT

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ROME — A gray stone wall on the edge of the northern Italian hamlet of Trento hides a former convent where gay priests say they were once sent to be “cured”

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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Where Gay Priests Are Sent to Be ‘Cured’

Official Catholic doctrine still calls homosexuality ‘intrinsically disordered.’ Can the warm embrace of Pope Francis change that?

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Barbie Latza Nadeau