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I can safely assume that 99% of the priests who leave the clerical system are straight men who are not only looking for the refreshing waters of the feminine in their lives, but are also unconsciously fleeing the bedrock homosexual clerical lifestyle - homosexual in the strictest sense of the word. All men - no women. Homosexual also as a descriptor of the primary sexual activity that takes place in the professed sexless culture of the priesthood. I didn't decide that celibacy was not for me 25 years ago. I decided that the all-pervasive gay lifestyle of the priesthood was...

Many readers undoubtedly have questions about reports concerning a new Vatican instruction on the admission of homosexuals to seminaries. I'll have analysis in the near future, though one note of caution is in order: we don't yet have the document, and as always with church texts, the devil is in the details. That's particularly true with this instruction, since the Vatican has already twice published documents indicating that homosexuals should not be admitted to the priesthood (a document from the Congregation for Religious in 1961 and another from the Congregation for Divine Worship in May 2002). To what extent the...