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# Toronto Gay Priest Outs Himself
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2778/
- Published: 2005-10-21T17:16:52.000Z
- Updated: 2005-10-21T17:16:52.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Religion, #wpChunk

> "I'm a Roman Catholic priest and I'm gay."

> With that confession, 63-year-old Karl Clemens became the first priest in Canada to openly declare his homosexuality.

> Clemens - a priest for 33 years who retired from the Kingston diocese seven years ago - now lives in Toronto, calling Church Street in the city's gay village his parish.

> "I don't have a parish," Clemens told 360 Vision in a documentary that aired last night on VisionTV. "My parish is the street - the highways, the byways, the bars."

> Clemens, who wears a priest's collar and says mass every day in his living room, said he is celibate.

> "If I were any more celibate, I don't know that I'd be alive," Clemens said, recalling a joke he once told a bishop.

[Link](http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2005/10/21/1272415-sun.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

Two observations:

1\. He apparently retired when he was only 56\. In my diocese, we're trying to get priests to work until they're at least 70\. I wonder why this guy retired so early.

2\. I don't understand his joke (see last paragraph above). He apparently slayed himself with it, since he's used it at least twice now.