‘It Is Not a Closet. It Is a Cage.’ Gay Catholic Priests Speak Out

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“Dear priests: We need you to be holy, first and foremost. We need you to be celibate and honor your vow of chastity. And way down the list of your self-understanding, our understanding of you, comes your identity as ‘gay.’”

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COMMENTARY: Dear priests: We need you to be holy, first and foremost. We need you to be celibate and honor your vow of chastity. And way down the list of your self-understanding, our understanding of you, comes your identity as ‘gay.’
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VanitasVanitatum said:
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But you have a new predominantly healthy pool of men entering the priesthood.
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The old pool still remains.
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well hopefully those who don’t really want to be priests, but are there for the wrong reasons can find something else meaningful to do.
 
IIRC, however, the Ordinariate will only be ordaining celibate priests, unless they are converts. Put another way, a fellow who enters their seminary “from the street”, so to speak, will be under normal Latin rite discipline. Maybe my recollection is not right?
 
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I wonder how they manage in other Christian churches.
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From what I’ve seen, they manage just fine. It’s not all giggles of course, but neither is it for the laity. As I mentioned earlier, my wife is a family doctor with a large obstetrics and hospital practice, and I was a travelling applied scientist in a global industry.

I may be wrong, but I can’t imagine that’s much easier than being a pastor. Somehow, we managed to make it work and our three kids are all grown. Single parents have it even worse than we did.

The real issue is economic IMHO.

And it’s not just “other Christian churches”. We have married Catholic priests in our very own Roman Rite, Catholic Church, by way of conversions.
 
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I wonder how they manage in other Christian churches.
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To be honest, I don’t care how they do things in the protestant churches. The question is if it is the right thing for the Catholic Church.
 
There are articles online that hint at difficulties experienced by married priests who converted to Catholicism.
 
I don’t think I’ve ever said that there aren’t married priests. Not to disparage the LA Times, but when I read this in the article I realized that it is just more “let’s let priests marry” propaganda.
If he gets a phone call in the middle of the night, he said, his wife would encourage him to get up and go, whereas a celibate priest may be tempted to roll over and go back to sleep.
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All priests should have deep seated heterosexuality, all altar servers should be boys, all confessionals should be designed to prevent physical contact. No church employee should otherwise ever be alone / sequestered with any minor (already in place)
Result? No more sexual predation, homo or hetero.
 
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Not to mention the absurd implication that celibacy links to deriliction of duty.
 
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