WP: Letter Advises Against Gay Seminary Teachers

[DeepModem Mom]

Letter Advises Against Gay Seminary Teachers
Experts Split on How it Will Affect Priests
By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 2, 2005; Page A03


In a letter accompanying its directive against the ordination of men with "deep-seated homosexual tendencies," the Vatican has told bishops that gay priests should not teach in Roman Catholic seminaries.

The Rev. Donald B. Cozzens, a Catholic author and former seminary rector, called the letter a "bombshell" because it affects current priests, not just future ones.

Some experts on church law said yesterday that the letter is nonbinding and can simply be ignored by bishops. But others predicted that it will usher in a gradual purge of gays from leadership positions in the church, even if they have kept their vows of celibacy.

Because priests who teach in seminaries are frequently transferred to serve in parishes and vice versa, "it could be implemented gradually, without anybody knowing" for certain why a clergyman was moved, said Sister Katarina Schuth, a professor at University of St. Thomas in Minnesota who is a leading researcher on Catholic seminaries.

"It's an amazing statement coming as it does on the heels of so many people assuring us that this document does not relate to priests already ordained," said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest in New York....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120101477.html

[Zenlitened]

1. Vatican filth. Doing everything they can to assault gay men...

... in the name of "recovering" from the pedophilia scandal.

It's a sick, evil meme they're perpetuating, deliberately spreading the lie that there is a link between the two.

:grr:

[Sir_Snooze]

2. They won't have any priests left!

Since a lot of them went out to rape little kids.
Isn't it sad; the church believes it right to allow pedophiles to preach, but not gays?

Am I missing something?

[forintegrity]

3. And the purging goes on...

Would someone please tell the Vatican:

"THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN PEDOPHILES AND GAYS!!!"

HELLOO!!!


Do they think we're that stupid to not see what is really going on here? It's obviously an attack on gays!

Won't be any priests left? Good. They're all a bunch of sick, social misfits anyways!

[LostinVA]

4. That's not what THEY think -- Vatican priests have said publicly

There is. Damn!@ I can't remember the name of that one priest high in the Vactican.... I think he's Polish... who said this last year. Ummm... it's almost 2006. There's lots of info out there about pedophilia.

If they seriously enforce this gay ban, half the priests in the US will be leaving their parishes...