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" Estos casos de abusos sexuales son de una enorme complejidad legal y técnica: requieren investigaciones de varios meses, numerosas audiencias, como muestra actualmente el procedimiento contra el cardenal George Pell en Australia, que ha movilizado a decenas de magistrados y de abogados y ha exigido miles de horas de trámites. No tiene sentido pensar que el Vaticano pueda juzgar uno de estos casos. No está preparado para ello: no tiene textos, ni procedimientos, ni abogados, ni magistrados, ni medios para investigar, ni siquiera derecho a ocuparse de ellos. El Vaticano no tiene otra solución que hacer constar su total incompetencia y dejar que actúen las justicias nacionales. "
― Frédéric Martel , In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy
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" Gay life in Amman, as in Havana, Damascus, Tehran, Riyadh, Cairo, Mumbai, and Beijing, is a marginal, dangerous, and marvelous underground counterculture: a fear and a promise. The phrase “one thousand and one nights” has never seemed to me both so unsettling—and so gay-friendly. "
― Frédéric Martel , Global Gay: How Gay Culture Is Changing the World
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" Still, for Pope Benedict XVI, the uninterrupted sequence of revelations about sexual abuse in the Church was more than a ‘season in hell’. It struck at the heart of the Ratzinger system and its theology. Whatever the public denials and positions of principle might have been, Benedict was well aware deep inside, I would dare to say from experience, that celibacy, abstinence and the failure to acknowledge the homosexuality of priests were at the heart of the whole scandal. His thought, minutely elaborated at the Vatican for four decades, exploded into pieces. This intellectual failure must have contributed to his resignation. "
― Frédéric Martel , In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy