UNITED STATES
Daily Targum
Published: 9/20/2005
The Vatican has issued a document outlining a nation wide plan to review the 229 Roman Catholic seminaries throughout the United States for faculty members who stray from church teachings - highlighted by the search for "evidence of homosexuality."
The American archbishop in charge of the seminary review said that "anyone who has engaged in homosexual activity or has strong homosexual inclinations," will not be allowed into a seminary. According to Edwin O'Brien, the archbishop for the United States military, even those who have not been sexually active for 10 or more years will be included in the project.
This review comes as a response to the sexual abuse scandals that greatly affected the Catholic Church and priesthood three years ago. It seems that if the Catholic Church wants to remedy the problem of sexual abuse by priests that investigation into the homosexuality of priests is not the right path. The right path to ending sexual abuse of children may be better found in seeking out pedophiles and child molesters, not gay men.