Gay Youth Minister

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Can someone lead me to Church documents that address ministry leadership attributes and restrictions?Should a well-intentioned gay hold the position of Catholic Youth Minister?
 
Welcome to CAF. You are most welcome here. Joe 🙂 Where are you coming from with this question ? Could you tell us a little bit more about what you mean?
 
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Have you talked to your parish priest? He’ll probably be able to adress your specific concerns better than we can. Threads like these tend to turn into a lot of gay-bashing, which I’m sure is not your intent.
 
No criticism/bashing. It seems to me there are parish positions that are not ideal for gays, but I’d like to see some published guidance.
 
Your Diocese will have guidelines/regulations for Youth Ministers. This is something determined by the Bishop. If these guidelines are not on the website, then, call the Office of Youth Ministry on Monday and they will get you a copy as they are not “state secrets”.
 
You havent given enough information.

Having same sex attraction is not a sin. Is he outwardly in an inappropriate relationship?

Holding any such position in the Church, while publicly engaged in sinful behavior and while being obstinate and unrepentant is not appropriate.
 
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How do you know the person is gay? Are they living openly with a same sex spouse or partner in a romantic relationship? Did they announce they were gay?
 
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These are human beings you are referring to. You wouldn’t call a straight person “a well-intentioned straight” . Don’t describe them as a rat in a petri dish
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You are being too sensitive. I dont think anyone meant such a thing. Having same sex attractive is abnormal. Acting on it is an abnormal behavior.
 
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As others mentioned you should really look to your parish or go to the diocese in your area to look for the answer to your question on the issue. As it’s been mentioned before these kinds of threads typically end up becoming an open invitation for some to bash gay people or imply that they’re not living chaste as per church teaching.
 
The “summer of shame” had nothing to do with gay people, and everything to do with pedophiles. Amazing to me that this needs to be said ad naseum.
 
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Gay people are not synonymous with pedophiles. I’m gay, I’m attracted to ADULT members of the same sex. I have absolutely no desire to abuse children. The clergy members that have been caught and put in prison weren’t abusing children because they were gay. They were abusing children because they had serious psychological issues and had easy access to children who saw them as authority figures.
 
You have a stat for that or will you just be sticking to asserting? McCarrick is ONE member of the clergy out of…how many globally? And the only reason McCarrick isn’t in prison is because there’s nothing to throw him in prison as far as evidence is concerned. Nothing that would fly in a jury trial anyway.

Do we even know how many priests are gay? Of course we don’t, the Vatican isn’t exactly going to be interested in compiling a list of people based on being attracted to members of the same sex. It’s not a “predatory homosexual” problem. It’s a people in high places of authority abusing their authority problem.
 
In other words you can’t substaniate what you’re saying.

You’re heavily implying, nay, openly saying that one logically follows the other.

This is precisely why I said what I did to the OP. We’ve gone exactly into the territory I said these threads go into.
 
You’re just coming out and saying that gay people can’t keep it in their pants and are in league with pedophiles who abuse children.

You’re treating gay people to the same moral standard as pedophiles based on mere assertions you can’t back up. By all means you’re entitled to feel however you please. That however does not make you in the right.

And I don’t agree. I think celibate gay men can and should be part of the seminary. In my opinion Pope’s Benedict and Francis are wrong on this. So long as someone maintains chastity and conforms to the moral teachings of the Church they should be able to pursue a calling as a priest.
 
Bingo. And this is precisely something a youth minister who is open about being gay is not prone to. You cannot blackmail a person who is open.

However, the youth minister must hold to Church teaching.
 
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