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Here is an America Magazine Editorial about the recent Vatican document. You can vote on whether you agree with the article at their webpage.
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Editorial: The Vatican Instruction on Priestly Formation
There has been a notably wide variety of interpretations from Catholic leaders of the Vatican instruction, published on Nov. 29, concerning the admission of gay men to orders. It is difficult, therefore, to determine exactly what effect it will have on future applicants to seminaries and religious orders. Some Catholic leaders, like Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., former master general of the Dominicans, have concluded that the document cannot be taken as a ban on gay men in the priesthood, since, in his words, “there are many excellent priests who are gay.” Others, like Bishop William S. Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the answer lies less in a man’s orientation and more “in the lives of those men who, with God’s grace, have truly been dedicated priests, seeking each day not to be served but to serve their people, faithfully representing in word and example the teaching of the Church in its fullness.” Still others, like Bishop John D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., view the document as an outright ban. “t does bar anyone whose sexual orientation is towards one’s own sex and it’s permanent,” he said to The Washington Post.
americamagazine.org/editorial.cfm?articleTypeID=3&textID=4583&issueID=558
Editorial: The Vatican Instruction on Priestly Formation
There has been a notably wide variety of interpretations from Catholic leaders of the Vatican instruction, published on Nov. 29, concerning the admission of gay men to orders. It is difficult, therefore, to determine exactly what effect it will have on future applicants to seminaries and religious orders. Some Catholic leaders, like Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., former master general of the Dominicans, have concluded that the document cannot be taken as a ban on gay men in the priesthood, since, in his words, “there are many excellent priests who are gay.” Others, like Bishop William S. Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the answer lies less in a man’s orientation and more “in the lives of those men who, with God’s grace, have truly been dedicated priests, seeking each day not to be served but to serve their people, faithfully representing in word and example the teaching of the Church in its fullness.” Still others, like Bishop John D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., view the document as an outright ban. “t does bar anyone whose sexual orientation is towards one’s own sex and it’s permanent,” he said to The Washington Post.