To be seen—to be desired—is a beautiful human need no matter what our age is.

We are all "dogs" in some way, outcasts and sinners who need forgiveness, and that’s why we approach the altar.

"Gay priests are living a lie", declares Garry Wills in his book Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (Doubleday, 2000). As a priest-psychotherapist who has spent 25 years conducting workshops, support groups and retreats for gay priests and religious men and women, this statement and those who