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Should gay men be Catholic priests? Recently, editor Bill McGarvey of BustedHalo.com spoke with a celibate, gay priest who--using an assumed name for fear of reprisal--spoke frankly about the issue of gay men in the priesthood and seminaries. This interview first appeared on BustedHalo.com, a website for spiritual seekers based in the Catholic tradition.
There has been a flurry of articles in the press recently about the Vatican potentially declaring that homosexual are unfit to be ordained priests. Could you talk about what instigated the recent interest in this issue?
What instigated it were the comments by Archbishop Edwin O’Brien who is coordinator of the ongoing review of seminaries in the United States that was instituted in response to the sexual abuse crisis. Archbishop O’Brien said that even a gay man who had been celibate for 10 years should not be admitted into the seminary. He further went on to say that a document from the Holy See would be coming out to that effect.
Posted by kshaw at October 1, 2005 09:29 AM