MISSOURI
The Kansas City Star
MARY SANCHEZ
My favorite priest was gay.
I never knew that when he was alive.
Few did.
Father Thom Savage died of AIDS in 1999.
So this can be said about him now, without fear that new decrees from the Vatican will out him, somehow canceling his work for God.
The Vatican plans to send investigators to the 229 seminaries in the United States. Even gay men who remain celibate will not be allowed to become priests. How they will determine who is and who isn’t gay is not being disclosed.
The decree is not retroactive, so homosexuals already ordained can apparently remain priests.
I wonder how Father Savage would have fared under such policies.