Cozzens

Donald Cozzens, a respected researcher on the Catholic priesthood and a former seminary president; Mark Jordan, a queer theologian and ethicist at Harvard Divinity School and Jeannine Gramick, a Catholic nun who was silenced by the Vatican for her work with lesbians and gays.

John Falcone: If Only The Hierarchs Would Listen And Learn John Falcone 2011

Donald Cozzens, a respected researcher on the Catholic priesthood and a former seminary president; Mark Jordan, a queer theologian and ethicist at Harvard Divinity School and Jeannine Gramick, a Catholic nun who was silenced by the Vatican for her work with lesbians and gays.

John Falcone: If Only The Hierarchs Would Listen And Learn John Falcone 2011

Gay men have not left the priesthood Cozzens estimates they make up 30-50 percent of US priests, and they also continue to enter -- either by lying about their orientation, or by keeping it under wraps at the direction of seminary directors.

John Falcone: If Only The Hierarchs Would Listen And Learn John Falcone 2011

For Cozzens, the Vatican's prohibition of gay men entering the priesthood has worked much like the now defunct policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

John Falcone: If Only The Hierarchs Would Listen And Learn John Falcone 2011

Gay men have not left the priesthood Cozzens estimates they make up 30-50 percent of US priests, and they also continue to enter -- either by lying about their orientation, or by keeping it under wraps at the direction of seminary directors.

John Falcone: If Only The Hierarchs Would Listen And Learn John Falcone 2011

Donald Cozzens, a respected researcher on the Catholic priesthood and a former seminary president; Mark Jordan, a queer theologian and ethicist at Harvard Divinity School and Jeannine Gramick, a Catholic nun who was silenced by the Vatican for her work with lesbians and gays.

John Falcone: If Only The Hierarchs Would Listen And Learn John Falcone 2011

For that matter, all such attempts to rescue "clear" and "unaffected" writers (such attempts have been made on behalf of writers like James Gould Cozzens and J.P. Marquand, among others) will always fail.

Style in Fiction 2009

Donald Cozzens, professor at John Carroll University and author of Freeing Celibacy, has written that some priests do indeed feel freed from sexual longing and a desire for personal intimacy upon entering the Church.

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

"There's the danger that we take too much care and when they hit the real world that same kind of support isn't there," says David Cozzens , dean of students and associate vice president of student affairs at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

A Serious Illness or an Excuse? Andrea Petersen 2011

Gay men have not left the priesthood Cozzens estimates they make up 30-50 percent of US priests, and they also continue to enter -- either by lying about their orientation, or by keeping it under wraps at the direction of seminary directors.

John Falcone: If Only The Hierarchs Would Listen And Learn John Falcone 2011