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	Rome Foundation Offers Course to Help Educators Train Healthy Priests By Sarah Delaney Catholic News Service May 27, 2011 http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1102115.htm A Rome-based Catholic foundation is offering a course to help educators ensure the spiritual and psychological formation of candidates for the priesthood and the consecrated life. Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, who served for many years at the helm of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said May 27 that the crisis in the church over the problem of the sexual abuse of minors by priests was an important factor in establishing the course, but not the only one. The Italian cardinal is president of the Ut Vitam Habeant Foundation, which is working with the Camillianum International Institute of the Theology of Health Care to offer the course in Rome beginning in November. Canossian Father Amedeo Cencini, a psychologist and expert in religious formation, said the course is designed to ensure candidates for the priesthood and religious life are formed as whole people, with healthy and deep relationships both with God and others. The classes listed in the prospectus address the spiritual and psychological development of candidates. Sexuality is discussed from the cultural, biological and psychological points of view. A section on immaturity and psychological problems will include a discussion about masturbation, homosexuality and pedophilia.
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