Best Gay Blogs » Priest http://www.bestgayblogs.com Bringing you the best gay blogs on the web with daily updates! Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:22:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Vatican Test for Priesthood http://www.bestgayblogs.com/2008/11/featured-political-blogs/vatican-test-for-priesthood/ http://www.bestgayblogs.com/2008/11/featured-political-blogs/vatican-test-for-priesthood/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:00:19 +0000 James http://www.bestgayblogs.com/?p=4360 Surely all this makes Pope Benedict himself a prime candidate for psychological testing and exclusion? After all, he wears a dress, loads of jewelery, Prada shoes.He also has a penchant for high church, high camp ritual and theatrics. While I don’t want to indulge in stereotypes, Benedict is not exactly macho. In fact, he’s quite effeminate. He is also surrounded exclusively by men, has an unusually young and handsome male private secretary and has no known close friendships with women.

He would not be the first gay pope. There have been several others, most scandalously Pope Julius III (1487 to 1555), who was more a pederast than a homosexual. He took a 15-year-old boy as his lover and made him a cardinal at the age of 17, showering him with such wealth that he became one of the richest men in Europe.

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