Catholic Church said to be struggling to keep homosexuals out

Yahoo News ^ | April 23, 2002

[history_matters]

The head of the US episcopal conference Wilton Daniel Gregory said there was an ongoing struggle within the Catholic Church to ensure that the priesthood is not "dominated by homosexual men".

Gregory and Chicago Archbishop, Cardinal Francis George, told reporters that the issue of homosexual priests had been discussed in a solemn morning meeting between Pope John Paul II and US cardinals on the issue of paedophile priests.

"It is an ongoing struggle. It is most importantly a struggle to make sure that the Catholic priesthood is not dominated by homosexual men," Gregory told a news conference after the first session of talks which are to last until Wednesday.

"Not only that it is not dominated by homosexual men, but that the candidates we receive are healthy in every possible way, psychologically, emotionally, spiritually, intellectually."

"That is the ongoing concern of seminaries."

[AppyPappy]

Why would you wonder about what I wear? Are you some kind of weirdo?

[Stone Mountain]

It is the sin that repels God, not the sinner.

That's what I thought. So the Catholic church isn't struggling to keep homosexuals out, it's struggling just to keep practicinghomosexuals out, right?

[ikanakattara]

How can you show someone pornographic pictures as a "test?" That seems immoral in and of itself!

[AppyPappy]

Leave my family out of your discussions.

[winstonchurchill]

If they don't indulge in homosexuality at all (i.e. stay celibate) is that still an abomination?

Of course, it is clear that it is the act not the person which is 'detestable'. In fact, some modern translations make that clear by translating the word "towebah" as a "detestable act" in this instance

But that begs the question you are implying. A 'priest' in the RCC is an influential person (much as a teacher in the larger society would be). And, assuming arguendo that the act is detestably immoral, then one who is inclined toward such behavior (even if he is not then practicing it) would be disqualified from that leadership role until he renounced the practice -- not just for himself but for those under his leadership.

In such an instance, he is not disqualified by his sinful act (assuming again arguendo that he has refrained from the wrongful act) but by his inclination to such sinful acts in a leadership position.

This is more than academic. With so many broken homes and accordingly so many teenage boys coming to manhood without the inlfuence of a male, sexual confusion puts more teenage boys at the margin and increases the danger of wrongful influences in positions of leadership.

That is why our society must be vigilant about homosexuals (whether practicing or of inclination) in leadership roles near young boys coming to adulthood.

[AppyPappy]

All I did was post the verse. You ASSumed I supported it. I'm not a Jew so I don't follow Levitican law. Find a Jew.

[Belial]

You're pretty cavalier about the people you condemn. And you're pretty arbitrary about it too.

At least stand on your own and don't hypocritically hide behind 4,000 year old scriptures.

[AppyPappy]

Who did I condemn?

[Belial]

I guess I assumed you meant something when you posted in #14.

[AppyPappy]

Stone Mountain stated "If they don't indulge in homosexuality at all (i.e. stay celibate) is that still an abomination?"

I then posted the verse showing that homosexuality is not an abomination, the act is the abomination.

Geez, it's like teaching Special Ed.

[AppyPappy]

Don't assume. Ask. We beat up enough strawman around here as it is.

[Belial]

Do you really mean we should ask each other what we mean?

[history_matters]

Of course the Pappy family considers their females unclean for a week after giving birth to a male, two weeks of filth after a female!

Absolutely unacceptable trash from you, Belial. The father of lies may be pleased with your post, but it has no place on FreeRepublic.

[Loyalist]

Immoral, yes; impractical as well. The RCMP ended up shelving the "Fruit Machine" because it turned to be practically useless.

Anybody know how psychiatrists test people for sexual preference these days?

[SauronOfMordor]

Because 90% of the Church's pedophile "incidents" have to do with homosexual priests seducing boys. This indicates that homosexual priests are more of a problem than non-homosexual priests

[Belial]

The father of lies may be pleased with your post, but it has no place on FreeRepublic.

Don't get your nighties in a knot. I didn't make it up, the author of Leviticus did.