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“I had no idea I would be confronted with my sexuality so immediately,” says Jacques Lamarre, playwright and communications director of the Mark Twain House in Hartford. He spent a year and a half pursuing the priesthood in Rome in the early ’90s. Most of his classmates were gay, and half left without becoming priests. “It was just a very weird, weird culture.”

In the news:

UN to Vatican: Do the Right Thing

http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2014/02/05/scathing-u-n-report-demands-vatican-act-against-clerical-sex-abuse-of-children/

Real life Philomena meets Pope Francis

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/philomena-lee-meets-pope-francis/2014/02/05/99c46ca6-8e9d-11e3-878e-d76656564a01_story.html

The Sisters Speak

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/us/nuns-speak-about-vatican-criticism.html?_r=0

Frank Bruni column: “A Pope You Can Eat”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/bruni-a-pope-you-can-eat.html

Sr. Megan, 84, sentenced for anti-nuclear activism

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/18/radical-84-year-oldnuntobesentencedforantinuclearactivism.html