This article confirms an uncomfortable truth:  gay priests are living a lie by pretending to be heterosexual men who have chosen celibacy.   Honesty and openness   --  coming out of the closet -- is the only way forward, cost what it may in shock and squawking.

Apologetic explanations about how it's wrong to define anyone by their sexual impulses, and therefore priests should keep mum about their ss attraction?   Weak arguments for deception.  The fact is, the public is growing in knowledge that there is a good chance that Father has feelings for males over females, but  is pretending to be straight as a arrow, pretending to understand and care  about the dynamics of heterosexual marriage.   How else to look at such a religious leader but as a pretender?   How to take such a man seriously on moral matters, if he himself is pretending to be something that he's not?  Or at  the very least, encourage others to pretend, to live a lie?