It’s no huge surprise that seminaries are full of frustrated gay men — for hundreds of years, the priesthood is where you sent your sensitive sons. But technology and social change is finally catching up with the church, and they don’t seem to know what to do about it.
The latest church sex scandal (and definitely not the last) involves St. Patrick’s College in Maynooth, which sounds like a super fun place. According to the archbishop of Dublin, he can’t send students there anymore because the atmosphere is so sexually charged and the Grindr usage is through the roof.
St. Patrick’s dates back to the late 1700s, when it was built to train 500 Catholic priests every year. Lately that number’s dwindled down to around 60 priests — apparently God isn’t what he once was.
The source of his intel are some anonymous letters, so who knows how true the specifics are. But here’s a newsflash for the archbishop: there’s probably a ton of gay sex happening in every seminary. You just happened to find out about one of them. Of course there are rules forbidding sex of any kind at the schools … but have we ever gone a year without hearing about some kind of priestly sex scandal?
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Nevertheless, the archbishop is sending his students to the Irish Pontifical College in Rome. Sure, good plan, nothing gay has ever happened in Rome. You might as well have sent them to Caligula’s House of Analingus.
At any rate, the head of St. Patrick’s says that he’s “very unhappy” about the situation, but that there is no investigation underway into the allegations.
Billy Budd
LOL LOL. I would love to meet a hot priest on Grindr. These guys are the most hypocritical in the world. Even more hypocritical than politicians.
jdboston617
At best they are – Hypocrites.
This is just another reason why organized religion needs to be abandoned by humanity.
Kieran
There are angry homophobes, r a c i s t s and nuts of all varieties in both parties I’m afraid. Pretending that they’re only Trump supporters is being disingenuous.
Kieran
Why are comments flagged that contain the word r a c i s t on queerty?
barkomatic
I almost want to join the Priesthood now. Lol
Kangol
@Billy Budd: I met a bunch when I was younger, but not on dating/sex apps. They were in gay bars. I know a number of gay priests. Most are pro-gay, or about as pro-gay as you can be without getting in trouble from the Catholic hierarchy. One used to come to NYC regularly to meet guys. The Church should allow both openly gay clergy and straight married ones, and they’d have far fewer problems with being the refuge of pedophiles.
Dave Downunder
“At any rate, the head of St. Patrick’s says that he’s “very unhappy” about the situation, but that there is no investigation underway into the allegations.”
Sounds like the only thing he is unhappy about is that it is in the media. No investigation means they don’t care about the actual sex just the public image.
I had sex with a priest once. Quite frankly the guy was a little weird and was really playing up the priest angle like I should have been in awe or something. Sorry but fetishes are not my thing.
Me2
No surprise here. Most priests are closeted homosexuals who turn to the seminary to become priests and hide their true identity.
SFHandyman
It is so much better to ban any sexual activity at all for priests. Just let the jizz back up to their eyeballs. The intensity of their emotions and the salivating thirst for carnal activity will just make them better priests. They’ll constantly talk about how bad gay sex is since they can’t get it off of their minds. What great priests!
Now give them some 8-year-old boys.
gaym50ish
I once met an Irish priest in a hot tub at the Russian River. But I was more interested in the cute young boyfriend he brought with him.