"I know from personal experience that the gay lobby exists," Herr Mäder told the Swiss weekly Schweiz am Sonntag, according to a report on Kerknet, the website of the Church in Flanders. He was responding to questions about reports in which an unidentified member of the Swiss Guard had claimed that he had been the target of sexual advances made by a number of officials of the Curia.
Herr Mäder went on to say that active homosexuals [as opposed to passive homosexuals? Ed.] within the Vatican comprise a virtual "secret society". Because they are more loyal to each other than the Holy See, he added, "it becomes a security risk."
In June 2013, while discussing problems within the Roman Curia during a conversation with religious leaders from Latin America, Pope Francis alluded to the same problem. "There is talk about a 'gay lobby'," he said, "and it's true, that exists."
Neither the Holy Father nor Herr Mäder mentioned the name of Msgr Alan McCormack (pictured), an official in the Chancery of the Archdiocese of Toronto until he was transferred to... wait for it... the office of the Congregation for the Defence of the Faith in Rome in the wake of a libel action by Father Nicholas Gruner.
In 2004, after the court action had been kicked into the long grass, Msgr. McCormack returned to Canada as Judicial Vicar of the Canadian Appeal Tribunal, a position which placed him about as far from the public eye -- and any parish -- as a priest can get. Msgr. McCormack resigned from that post on 29 February 2012. Walt does not know if he returned to the Vatican or not.
Further reading on WWW: "Vatican insider identifies 'prelate of the gay lobby'"
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