Formerly gay now married – his story

April 11, 2026·50 min·4 clips

Marco describes his hidden double life in seminary and the moment he called on Jesus during a silent retreat.

The question is blunt. Timmerie asks listeners to look at same-sex attraction alongside confusion over gender, the body, and what society calls normal. Marco Casanova comes in as the witness. He is introduced as someone who formerly identified as gay, no longer does, is married, and has an eight-month-old daughter. The pace stays urgent. Timmerie ties his story to Catholic claims about male and female complementarity, new human life, and anatomy as more than social labeling. Confession becomes the turn. Marco pushes back on vague moral language and urges Catholics to name sin plainly before Jesus in the sacrament. That part lands with weight. The episode treats confession as the place where nothing is too big or too small to bring. Resources come up too. Timmerie says the show will link information for listeners who struggle with same-sex attraction or know someone who does. She also challenges media silence, saying mainstream coverage misses a study that pulls together data sets about people who identify as formerly gay in the United States and the UK. By the end, the conversation moves toward friendship, especially Aristotle's friendship of virtue and the Catholic desire for the good, true, beautiful, and God. Complaining gets a sharp rebuke. The friendship held up here does not nurse resentment. It brings correction directly to the person for that person's good.

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A direct Catholic discussion of same-sex attraction, confession, and family life.

This episode of Trending with Timmiey keeps its focus on same-sex attraction, while widening into the larger gender conversation through Marco Casanova's testimony.

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You want a candid conversation about same-sex attraction, framed by Marco Casanova's testimony, marriage, and fatherhood.

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