Wednesday, February 01, 2006
CLAIMS THAT PAUL VI WAS HOMOSEXUAL
are being made:
The Italian periodical L’Espresso recently published a scoop reporting that Paul VI had been blackmailed about a certain secret. The “hush-hush” information was his supposed “waywardness” involving homosexual acts.
The gist of the article was reported by the newspaper Il Giornale online, January 27, 2006. Rather than deny the accusations, Paul VI sought the help of his friend Aldo Moro, the president of the Governmental Council, to stop the rumor. This was reported by General Giorgio Manes, who released his confidential notes to l’Espresso as an exclusive.
Is there anything sound upon which to base this very serious accusation, or is it just a tabloid splash? The report brings to surface a unremitting accusation that Paul VI really was a homosexual. It has been often said that the principal thing that could stop his process of canonization would be that his vice was and still is broadly known in countless Italian milieus.
In his book, Vatican II, Homosexuality and Pedophilia, Atila S. Guimarães examined those accusations and, based on credible sources, made the following report. With his permission, I transcribe an excerpt from his work (pages 157 to 162, with the footnotes). He wrote:
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Wouldn't a lot of questions be cleared up if this were true...!!
Can anyone confirm or deny that the Il Giornale online report is being accurately represented here? Has anyone read Guimarães' book?
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UPDATE
Wikipedia denies the claims:
Pope Paul VI caused considerable surprise in 1968 when, to the consternation of his aides, he apparently denied rumours that he was homosexual. Though rumours had circulated periodically in anti-papal and anti-Catholic publications as to Paul's sexual orientation, with suggestions of a past relationship while he was an archbishop with a priest who had served as his secretary, when what Paul called the "scandalous rumours" began to feature in some elements of the Italian media, he made the controversial choice of issuing a public denial. It was the first time in the modern era that a pope had commented in any way about his sexual identity. [3] Controversy remains among historians as to whether the term "scandalous rumours" actually referred to the Pope's sexuality, or various other rumours concerning his papacy.
