Anthony Capretta, gay, drag queen y párroco de su iglesia en Columbus, Ohio
Vincent Anthony Capretta es párroco de la Community of Charity de Columbus, Ohio (Estados Unidos), una comunidad que se define como católica pero que no rinde obediencia al Papa de Roma. De origen panameño, además es gay y en su tiempo libre se transforma en «Big Mama Capretta», una drag queen que interpreta música dance. Ha concedido una entrevista a «El Mundo», de la cual hemos entresacado algunos párrafos…
«Yo quise ser cura desde que estaba en primaria. Me crié en la iglesia Católica Romana y asistí al colegio parroquial. Allí era el preferido de los curas y las monjas con las cuales me pasaba los sábados en el convento rezando el rosario. A los 12 años fui aceptado al seminario para menores pero este cerró por falta de estudiantes… Así que me tocó ir a un colegio jesuita y allí se me quitaron las ganas de ser cura». Allí tuvo también su primera experiencia homosexual a los 16 años.
Tres años después Capretta «salió del armario» para su familia. «Mi madre me preguntó –así, de frente- si era gay. Yo le respondí que sí. Ella me dijo que hablaríamos más cuando llegara mi padre a casa. Y aunque al principio fue ella la que estaba más en contra ahora es la que más me apoya». Eso sí, a Capretta, que además de una carrera artística está cursando su tercera carrera universitaria,le resulta difícil establecer una relación sentimental: «Soy cura y además artista. Eso asusta un poco a los pretendientes.»
La Community of Charity de Columbus es una parroquia inclusiva, que acepta plenamente a las personas LGTB, en la cual hombre y mujer tienen los mismos derechos y el celibato es opcional. Mantiene los mismos sacramentos que la iglesia católica romana pero no los niega a nadie aunque se divorcie, use anticonceptivos o aborte (aunque desaconseja el aborto). Se inscribe en la tradición de las iglesias conocidas como «católicas antiguas», grupo heterogéneo de iglesias que en su origen se separaron de Roma en el siglo XIX por no aceptar el dogma de la infalibilidad papal.
Os dejamos con el último videoclip de Big Mama Capretta…
Sencillamente, me encanta. La noticia y Big Mama, ambas.
con esta iglesia igual me replanteaba lo de no ir los domingos a misa 😀
En mi pueblo hay un cura rarito, a ver si lo convenzo para eurovision 2010 al estilo big mama!
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!Definitivamente opino lo mismo! Asi ¿quién no querría ir a misa… siquiera !a escuchar a Big Mamma!? 😛
Benedicto ve haciéndote a la idea: ¡estás acabado!
Huy al, con lo que le gustan a Beni los zapatitos, los sombreritos y las túnicas.
Seguro que tiene un fondo de armario envidiable.
Dejando de lado la coña, está claro que el numerito de los sombreros con el que siempre juega el criminal con túnica ese, es un intento de recuperar el «campechanismo» del JuanPa.
Pero este no lo consigue, el encantador de serpientes era el otro, tan ultramontano, machista, homófobo y fascistoide como este, pero bien considerado entre la gente.
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