Blogger Andrew Sullivan on Wednesday
speculated on whether Pope Benedict XVI is secretly gay.
Sullivan, who in 2007 married his
partner Aaron Tone in Massachusetts, wrote in a post titled Two
Popes, One Secretary that “something truly weird is going on”
in connection with reports that Benedict will continue living in the
Vatican with the counsel of one of his most trusted secretaries,
Monsignor Georg Ganswein, dubbed “Gorgeous Georg” by the Italian
media.
“So Benedict's handsome male
companion will continue to live with him, while working for the other
Pope during the day,” Sullivan wrote on his The
Dish
blog. “Are we supposed to think that's, well, a normal
arrangement?”
Previously, Sullivan, who identifies as
a faithful Catholic, had previously written that it “seems pretty
obvious” that “the current Pope is a gay man,” adding that
Benedict has not “explored his sexuality, or has violated his own
strictures on the matter.”
Ganswein “clearly in some kind of
love with Ratzinger (and vice-versa) will now be working for the new
Pope as secretary in the day and spending the nights with the Pope
Emeritus. This is not the Vatican. It's Melrose Place,” he wrote
this week.