Openly gay Catholic journalist Robert Mickens offers an interesting take on Pope Francis' permission to priests to bless same-sex couples:
It's Francis lancing the boil of homophobia in the Catholic clergy and hierarchy, Mickens proposes. It's less about same-sex couples than it is about the large numbers of priests and bishops who are gay — but often closeted and in many cases self-loathing.
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