Monday, November 28, 2005

Vatican document reiterates policy about gays in the priesthood; it provokes usual responses

Liberal news agencies spout the usual claptrap about how divisive the Vatican's policy of not allowing gays in the priesthood is. Although not a new policy the careful screening of candidates must be enforced in order to weed out unsuitable men.

U.S. Catholics Are Divided Over New Directive on Gays

By NEELA BANERJEE and KATIE ZEZIMA
Published: November 28, 2005

Grappling with the implications of a Vatican directive issued last week that would bar most gay men from seminaries, Roman Catholics at several parishes around the country yesterday offered sharply contrasting interpretations of its impact on the priesthood, on the potential for sex abuse by clergy members and on the church itself.

More than three dozen interviews at churches in Los Angeles and around Boston, Washington and Austin, Tex., underscored that Catholics were as divided as the rest of the country in their attitudes about gay men and lesbians. Roughly half the Catholics interviewed praised the Vatican document as upholding church teachings, which consider homosexuality "objectively disordered." But just as many parishioners criticized it as unfair to gay men, saying that a priest's commitment to celibacy should be the issue, not his sexual orientation.
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