Two seminarians from the Irish College in Rome were sent home this week after the rector discovered them naked in bed together.
Both men had reportedly gotten wasted at an event marking the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul V1’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. When they got back to their dorm that evening, they started going at it.
And then the rector walked in.
The Irish Times reports:
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It is unclear whether either man will be permitted to resume studies for the priesthood. A spokesman for the Catholic bishops said it was “not appropriate to comment about individuals” when asked about the matter.
Scandalous!
Ironically, the men were sent to the Irish College in Rome after the Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin became concerned St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, where Ireland usually sends it seminarians, developed a reputation for being a party school.
“I don’t think this is a good place for students,” Martin said back in 2016. “There seems to be an atmosphere of strange goings-on there.”
Some of those “strange goings-on” included an underground ring of young seminarians with Grindr profiles hooking up with priests of the Dublin archdiocese.
Related: Ireland’s Oldest Seminary Rocked By Widespread Grindr Use Among Priests
Heywood Jablowme
Well, come on, they were celebrating the “50th anniversary of Pope Paul V1’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae.” What better way to do that than to have sex that doesn’t involve artificial contraception?
As long as neither of them got pregnant, they should be in the clear!
SPEEDOSWIMMER
Made me feel sooooooooooo MOIST…
Vince
This is truly shocking. By shocking I mean they were both adult men.
CarrieV
?????
CarrieV
@Vince:
Grrr — my “five question mark” response was supposed to read as five gold stars to your stellar comment.
Mack
I would rather it be the two priests than a priest with a young kid. At least their old enough to make their own decision. I think the Catholic Church vow of Celibacy is BS as well as stupid. Do they really think that a man is going to “behave”.
Aires the Ram
And what has always been the easiest “out” for young gay men from staunch Catholic families & communities, who would never leave the church? To become a priest!!!! Does this surprise anyone?
o.codone
What are you going to do? Priests are human too. Is it really a surprise that Humanae Vitae and a little communion wine could be a career-breaking turn on? It’s like religious porn. hahahahhaa.
linniejr
Here’s what puzzles me, as two consenting adults, they are punished for doing each other, but yet no one is punished when the adults were harming the young non consenting adults. Everything was covered up.
James
What a useless thing to be gay and catholic. So the homophobic catholic church is going to torture them now?
o.codone
gay and catholic is a thing. i’m gay and catholic.
dustashed
same, gay and catholic
Mick406
Same for me too. I once confessed to a priest behind the ‘curtain’ that I had broken the Sixth Commandment by masterbating several times. He said, “Did you do it with lust in your heart, thinking of someone else and what you would like to do to them? Plotting and planning a joint sexual act with another male? If not, then think of what you are doing. Let’s call it ‘recreational sex’. Your body needs some relief and if you don’t do it with malicious intent, then don’t worry about it.” From that day on I pounded as often as I could feeling free and clear. Ha.
Lumen
I’m more surprised the story got out.