New US Seminary Guidelines Insist on Total Acceptance of Full Teaching on Sexuality

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New US Seminary Guidelines Insist on Total Acceptance of Full Teaching on Sexuality*
Document Shows Bishops Getting Serious About Sexual Abuse*
By John-Henry Westen

WASHINGTON, August 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Officially promulgated on August 4, a new 98-page Program of Priestly Formation has been issued by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) after being approved by the Vatican. Replacing the fourth edition of the norms guiding priestly formation in all seminaries published in 1992, the fifth edition has taken seriously the scandal of priestly sexual abuse. Speaking of a proper formation in sexuality, the document states, “As we have recently seen so dramatically in the Church, when such foundations are lacking in priests, the consequent suffering and scandals are devastating.”

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But when did the Church ever not teach that sexually abusing a child was a sin? I fail to see how this change is going to fix the root of the problem, which I believe has already for the most part been fixed by better screening of candidates.
 
Excellent!

Canada follows the US into almost everything else, lets hope the same happens here 😉
 
I just wonder when following the Holy Mother Church “full” teachings to become a priest became optional. It seems to me that this should never have been “optional” and thus “news” worthy.
 
Yeah, and cut it down by about 90 percent.

I mean, c’mon, a 98 page document?!

That is a hallmark of the post-vatican-ii church: long, dense, bureaucratic “official documents”…

The Syllabus of Errors summed it up in a few pages. Old decrees used to be a few pages long, now we’ve have huge stacks of paperwork and bureaucracy no one could ever possibly read.

THAT’s part of the problem.
 
batteddy said:
Yeah, and cut it down by about 90 percent.

I mean, c’mon, a 98 page document?!

That is a hallmark of the post-vatican-ii church: long, dense, bureaucratic “official documents”…

The Syllabus of Errors summed it up in a few pages. Old decrees used to be a few pages long, now we’ve have huge stacks of paperwork and bureaucracy no one could ever possibly read.

THAT’s part of the problem.
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Maybe if they had to had carve it in stone they would get it down to two tablets.
 
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