Posted on 09/15/2005 12:07:00 AM PDT by Crackingham
Investigators appointed by the Vatican have been instructed to review each of the 229 Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States for "evidence of homosexuality" and for faculty members who dissent from church teaching, according to a document prepared to guide the process. The Vatican document, given to The New York Times yesterday by a priest, surfaces as Catholics await a Vatican ruling on whether homosexuals should be barred from the priesthood.
In a possible indication of the ruling's contents, the American archbishop who is supervising the seminary review said last week that "anyone who has engaged in homosexual activity or has strong homosexual inclinations," should not be admitted to a seminary.
Edwin O'Brien, archbishop for the United States military, told The National Catholic Register that the restriction should apply even to those who have not been sexually active for a decade or more.
American seminaries are under Vatican review as a result of the sexual abuse scandal that swept the priesthood in 2002. Church officials in the United States and Rome agreed that they wanted to take a closer look at how seminary candidates were screened for admission, and whether they were being prepared for lives of chastity and celibacy.
The issue of gay seminarians and priests has been in the spotlight because a study commissioned by the church found last year that about 80 percent of the young people victimized by priests were boys.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Both the Nazis and the Communists used to accuse people of being homosexual to discredit them, as a propaganda tool. So JPII's experience had him inclined to view people accused of homosexuality as victims of a hideous smear campaign. How times have changed -- now telling people you're a homosexual is a sign of moral superiority. / sarcasm
...reading file.
They're also going to close the barn doors now that all the horses have escaped.
My impression is that the Catholic church is suffering from a pederast priest problem. Most victims are pubescent males. There may indeed be some small percentage of victims who are pre-pubescent, but the overwhelming majority are not prebies (prepubies?).
2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity...
We are told by the homophiles that homosexuals, because they are born that way, cannot (or should not) change. Just as alcoholics should not frequent bars, pederast priests should not be involved with oversight of young males. Even the Boy Scouts understand this.
Thanks for the further information.
No a homo-promo did not write this. It is the official text of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Have a little respect.
Well said.
I do not believe that not allowing a homosexual into the priesthood is unjust. As you said, you do not have a right to be a priest, it is a privelage that should be given to those most Holy and whose lives and souls closely mirror that of Christ's.
What do people want from the catholic church? They are trying to solve the problems that are currently going on in the Church. They have admonished the Bishop's responsible for the cover-ups, and now they are trying to weed out potential victimizer's.
Let us step back and look at the situation at hand. The children being assaulted are mostly boy's(teenage), and they are being assaulted by the priest's not the nun's. There is a real problem in the clergy when it comes to those with homosexual tendencies be it latent or outright.
You cannot argue that "celibacy" is the root cause of the assault's because as I said, the victim's are boy's assaulted by men, not girl's assaulted by men.
a newspaper with a significant number of homosexuals in their employ, the NYT, objects to the church purging homosexuals from the priesthood.
No wonder that homosexual denomination is advertising so much on TV.
Who wants to bet the "source" for the NYT is another homosexual.
the pedophiles WERE homosexuals.
In the priesthood, the homosexuals ARE the pedophiles.
Homosexuals do not belong in the priesthood in ANY capacity.
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As Cardinal, Benedict had already started pushing for this, as well as for a cleanup of the idiocy at some of the "Catholic" universities. Good News!
The problem here is the ambiguity of the word "homosexual." The Church teaches that homosexual acts ar alwsys immoral, but that a homosexual personality tendency is a disorder which leads to morally dangerous temptations, which the homosexual is morally obliged to reject.
Thus, people with a same-sex orientation deserve respect (just like people who struggle with any temptation); but they who PRACTICE perverted sex (the key word in the scripture quote) are condemned.
I think this pope sees homosexuality as a BEHAVIROR CHOICE and the PC police have been pushing the propaganda lie that homosexuality is "born" via some gene. (no science just propaganda BS)
Seems to be that he has cut through the spin is is looking to a real solution. The fact he is looking should also discourage homosexual advocates from looking to the priesthood as a job.
WOOHOOO!!! Go get 'em, Benedict!
"and for faculty members who dissent from church teaching" covers a broad spectrum of behavior.
All good points, but apparently you missed the humor in my post.
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