Beliefnet
By Fr. Gerard Thomas
The recently leaked Instruction concerning the entrance of gay men into seminaries and religious orders was far worse than what I had expected.
Contrary to some media reports that focused on the Vatican’s banning of "sexually active" gay men from the seminaries (anyone--straight or gay--who enters the seminary must be celibate) and stories that zeroed in on "transitory" gays (another way of speaking about basically straight men), the document has a far simpler and more wide-ranging goal: the banning of any man who understands himself as gay. The document explicitly bars those who have "deeply rooted homosexual tendencies.”
This is about as broad a ban as you could imagine.