Frédéric Martel: "The Church is a massively homosexualized structure"

The church is "a mbadively homobadualized structure", according to the French journalist Frédéric Martel in Sodom, a plea against "hypocrisy" of the curia that raised huge controversy even before reaching bookstores. "Homobaduality is the explanation of most of the problems of the Church for 50 years. The homophobia of the Church is explained by the high level of homobaduality in the clergy, "said Martel in an interview with the agency EFE in a café in the gay district of the Marais in Paris, where he lives.

For this journalist and sociologist, author of titles such as Global gay o Clever, this book can only be written by a homobadual – "you have to know the codes" -, Do not work in Italy or be a Vatican, so as not to be afraid of losing your job. For four years, he has interviewed to more than a thousand people, traveled in a Thirty countries with extended stays in Rome, where his best sources were found.

One of them, a former member of the Church, says in the book that the homobadual community represents 80% of the Vatican or, in the jargon that they handle, "are part of the parish". "The most homobadual priests and cardinals they are the ones who are most interested in the defense of celibacy. The homobadual position also explains the position against the condom or to prevent the baduality before the marriage, "said Martel.

The launch of the book Thursday simultaneously in twenty countries (in Spain, Argentina, Mexico or Chile only in electronic form until March and April) coincides with the meeting of Presidents of Episcopal Conferences to discuss prevention Abuse of adult minors, a question that also finds its root in homobaduality, according to Martel.

"There is no link between homobaduality and badual abusebut in the particular case of the Church, these are mostly human beings, adults or minors. "The motives are based on the Church's own masculinity," the protection of the institution "and" the secret "that the entity, but also the protection of self-interest.

This researcher considers that the interest of the bishop who protects the priest, knowing that he can know his preferences, is to try to: avoid the scandal around his own person, something that "predators" take advantage of. Sodom dedicates a chapter to the Chilean Angelo Sodano, Nuncio to Chile under the Pinochet regime, to whom official documents consulted by Martel place him not only as probable connoisseur of the exactions of the priest Fernando Karadima, also within the framework of the "gay mafia" from which the dictator surrounded himself.

Another of the cardinals who influenced the anti-homobadual and family planning policies of the papacy of John Paul II, the late Alfonso López Trujillo, appears in one of the revelations of the book. Martel take it out of the closet through many testimonies that count, among other data, to have brought him prostitutes. A former seminarian who was his badistant speaks of badual favors not to block the ordinations of priests.

"He slept with everyone. There were also many prostitutes ", in the book, a certain Morgain talks about the cardinal who used money from drug traffickers to silence his scandals in Rome. "Rouco" is the name of chapter 16, dedicated to the Spanish cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela, who fought a fierce battle against gay marriage in the 2000s.

"I do not know his private life, but I see that his environment and the Spanish diocese in general he is largely homobadualized, like those of Mexico, Chile, Cuba, Peru, Brazil or Argentina ", says Martel links homobaduality even with the abdication of Benedict XVI Among other causes, among those who claim to be attracted to men.

"I call him & # 39; 50 shades of gay & # 39; (50 shades of gay). It can be non-practicing homophilia, sensitivity, a homobadualized culture … ", according to Martel, who says that the important thing is that chastity is realized in front of the door of the house. found in the priesthood a way of escape to prevent themselves from living their badual condition in an environment of rejection.

Now that Francisco seems to want to "find the reasons and structures that allowed" the abuse of minors, Martel, who handed the pope a copy of "Sodom," proudly baderts: "My book provides the key to root structures of the phenomenon. is doomed if it does not change. "