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These should help answer the legitimate confusion people have expressed; I suppose some will persist in trying to interpret the instruction as a green light to ordain homosexuals, but that is not what the Vatican is saying…
From the instruction’s author (note he more or less defined deep-seated tendencies as not “transitory”)
"The Vatican prefect continued: "We have adopted as principle three categories of people who cannot be admitted either to the seminary or to priestly ordination: those who practice homosexuality; those who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies, and those who support the so-called gay culture. "
“In regard to people who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies, we are profoundly convinced that it is an obstacle for a correct relationship with men and women, with negative consequences for the Church’s pastoral development.”
"Obviously, if we speak of deep-seated tendencies, this means that there can also be transitory tendencies, which do not constitute an obstacle. "
catholic.net/global_catholic_news/template_news.phtml?channel_id=2&news_id=80818
From Msgr Anatrella’s commentary on the instruction:
“One must free oneself from the idea that leads one to believe that, insofar as a homosexual person respects his commitment to continence lived in chastity, there will not be problems and he can therefore be ordained a priest.”
Msgr. Anatrella repeatedly affirmed the need for a priest to be heterosexual in order to see himself and for others to see him as the “bridegroom of the church” and as a “spiritual father” to those to whom he is ministering.
catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506787.htm
From the instruction’s author (note he more or less defined deep-seated tendencies as not “transitory”)
"The Vatican prefect continued: "We have adopted as principle three categories of people who cannot be admitted either to the seminary or to priestly ordination: those who practice homosexuality; those who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies, and those who support the so-called gay culture. "
“In regard to people who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies, we are profoundly convinced that it is an obstacle for a correct relationship with men and women, with negative consequences for the Church’s pastoral development.”
"Obviously, if we speak of deep-seated tendencies, this means that there can also be transitory tendencies, which do not constitute an obstacle. "
catholic.net/global_catholic_news/template_news.phtml?channel_id=2&news_id=80818
From Msgr Anatrella’s commentary on the instruction:
“One must free oneself from the idea that leads one to believe that, insofar as a homosexual person respects his commitment to continence lived in chastity, there will not be problems and he can therefore be ordained a priest.”
Msgr. Anatrella repeatedly affirmed the need for a priest to be heterosexual in order to see himself and for others to see him as the “bridegroom of the church” and as a “spiritual father” to those to whom he is ministering.
catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506787.htm