Southern Voice
Friday, December 09, 2005
THE VATICAN FINALLY issued its “instruction” on gay seminarians last month, and it has profound practical, political and theological implications.
Practically, the Vatican has taken a definitive stand: no gay seminarians!
So, out gay men will stop entering the seminary. Only gay men who don’t know themselves or who are lying will be ordained. Pious platitudes will cover over all sexuality.
The Roman Catholic priesthood will remain a hideaway for sexually immature men of every stripe. And the sexual abuse that this new policy is supposed to address will go on, business as usual.