Wisconsin State Journal
00:00 am 12/03/05
Columnist Bill Wineke
T here is a crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, but it's not a crisis caused by homosexuals or, even, by pedophiles.
The crisis stems from a central tenet of the faith, that there is a sacred priesthood, one called by God and set apart from other mere mortals.
This week, in order to explicate its definition of Holy Orders, the church issued a statement limiting ordination of gay men to those who do not have "deep-seated homosexual tendencies."
Although the statement was portrayed around the world as a means of dealing the with sexual-abuse crisis in the church, the Vatican statement makes clear that its problem with gay priests is that they do not adequately reflect the perfection of Christ.