Paul VI - A Modern-Day Gay Saint?

Pope Paul VI was canonized a saint by Bergoglio on Sunday, October 14, 2018 [1]:

The Vatican calls Paul VI the "pope of modernity" for his influence on changes in "liturgy, seminary formation, theological study, and many other areas of ecclesiastical life."

Paul VI, being labeled by the Vatican as a "'pope of modernity'" is truly right and just.  An article entitled Paul VI's Homosexuality: Rumor or Reality? written by Marian T. Horvat, Ph.D., published on February 1, 2008, [2] suggests the that Paul VI was gay and had a boyfriend before he was pope, when he was Cardinal Montini, Archbishop of Milan. [3]  This supposed rumor was "confirmed by another author, a serious professor and journalist who had worked at the Vatican in the papal quarters." [4]

If this is true, and why would it not be based on the probability that at least one of the popes throughout the centuries could have been a homosexual man, then the Vatican and Bergoglio must have known about it.  Not that a homosexual man could not ever live a holy life and be a saint, but that it would be important for Catholics to know that a gay man had been canonized a saint.  It is little wonder that the Vatican had called Paul VI "the 'pope of modernity'" since he could very well had been gay.

The Vatican also stated that Paul VI had exerted his influence upon many things, among them "'seminary formation ... and many other areas of ecclesiastical life.'" Interestingly, the truth of this statement reinforced the assertion that the article cited above had quoted which also helps to provide some insight to the state the Catholic Church is in today [5]:

Another change observed ... was the sudden appointment of homosexuals to positions of prestige and responsibility close to the Papacy. 

By highlighting the above, this blogger is not insinuating that all homosexual clerics are hypocrites and sexual perverts that prey upon children and seminarians nor is he is implying that all heterosexual clerics are holy and sinless.

In conclusion, this ought to be the truth--anyone can be holy and saintly (generically-speaking), regardless of one's gender, race, sexual orientation, and might he add one's religion to this partial enumeration, and one's past (recalling the conversion of Saul to Saint Paul on the road to Damascus [6]).


[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/10/14/657277667/oscar-romero-pope-paul-vi-elevated-to-sainthood
[2] https://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/a02tPaulV_Accusations.html
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Ibid.
[6] https://catholicexchange.com/the-conversion-of-st-paul