Pope Approves Barring Gay Seminarians

[Mark E. Smith]

Catholic World News Brief

Pope Benedict XVI has given his approval to a new Vatican policy document indicating that men with homosexual tendencies should not be ordained as Catholic priests.

The new document -- which was prepared by the Congregation for Catholic Education, in response to a request made by the late John Paul II in 1994 -- will be published soon. It will take the form of an "Instruction," signed by the prefect and secretary of the Congregation" Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski and Archbishop Michael Miller.

The text, which was approved by Pope Benedict at the end of August, says that homosexual men should not be admitted to seminaries even if they are celibate, because their condition suggests a serious personality disorder which detracts from their ability to serve as ministers.

http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=60630

[IndianaGreen]

1. However, pedophiles are still welcomed!

Is this man totally ignorant or is he pretending to be stupid?

[Toucano]

9. Thank you!

I can always count on you.

I don't think it's either, actually. He's just practicing what he learnd in Li'l Nazi school. Find a scapegoat. Always find a scapegoat.

[LostinVA]

13. It;'s the same thing, didn't you know that?

A Vatican spokesperson (think he was a Pole) said as much a year or so ago. I'll see if I can find the link.

[marmar]

2. The neo-Medieval Pope.

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[dhinojosa]

3. Is there a process to determine "homosexual tendencies"

Seminarian Bob: "Oh, those colors are absolutely dreadful!"
Bishop Stan: "Bob, we need to talk"

I mean WTF?

[onager]

4. Hey, stop all this Catholic-bashing!

This is a Pre-emptive Strike by an atheist, before the Professional Catholics show up.

You'll probably see this subject line about 570 times. Unlike me, most of them won't be joking.

:hi:

[moobu2]

5. Utterly disgusting.

This really does remind me of something you could read happening in 1930’s Germany.

[anotherdrew]

6. "How do you tell a gay?" I'm sure the grand inquisitor Ratzinger has ideas

not my pope!

[Kailassa]

11. Gay?

How they can tell is easy. They'll just tell the applicant to bend over, and if he objects he must be gay.

Btw, how do Australians know a guy's gay? He prefers women to beer.
(I'm Australian, so I'm allowed to poke fun ;-))

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[Polethebear]

8. I can understand this.......

Really I can,it's simple

He doesn't want any of his friends to walk in and say

"Hey Joe,what's up!!!???!!"

[Toucano]

10. So the new millenium is all about ushering in a new dark age?

Great. Fucking swell.

May you live in interesting times.

[ISUGRADIA]

12. Well there goes 50% of next year's class

[LostinVA]

14. Or more....

[genieroze]

15. Torquemada wannabe. lol, eom

[jmm]

16. Let's say goodbye to half the priest in the US

because I've read that anywhere between 20-75% of US priests homosexual

Isn't this like the Pope admitting people are born homosexual? It's bad enough the church wants to force people to deny who they are but now that's not enough. So now homosexuals are intrinsically different and can't be "cured."

If current and future priests are honest about their sexuality then the church will cripple itself in order to find a scapegoat for their years of hiding child abuse.