Bishop Marian Eleganti has said that he wrote to Pope Leo XIV about widespread homosexuality in the clergy and its significance in the sexual abuse crisis.
In an interview with AdVaticanum, the former auxiliary bishop of Chur in Switzerland was asked about his 2025 article titled, “Homosexuality in Society and in the Church: An Elephant in the Room.” In it, he identified “widespread homosexuality in the clergy and its significance in the abuse crisis” as the ignored “elephant in the room,” without which a proper evaluation of the abuse crisis is not possible.
Bishop Marian Eleganti has said that he wrote to Pope Leo XIV about widespread homosexuality in the clergy and its significance in the sexual abuse crisis.
“This is not a matter of my own subjective impressions or pastoral experience, but of pure statistics,” Eleganti said, adding that he “wrote to Pope Leo XIV about this.”
“All Church studies on abuse show a disproportionately high number of male victims,” he continued. “It does little good to turn a blind eye to this. There is a factual correlation, without implying that clergy with a homosexual orientation are predestined to commit abuse because of their orientation. The same applies to heterosexuals. There are also many cases of sexual abuse outside the Church, but society primarily focuses on and is scandalized by those within the clergy.”
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