What To Do with the Vatican
Investigators appointed by the Vatican have been instructed to review all 229 Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States for “evidence of homosexuality” and faculty dissenting from church teaching.
A Vatican document prepared to guide the process, given to The New York Times on Wednesday by a priest, surfaced as Catholics awaited a Vatican ruling on whether gays should be barred from the priesthood. [...]
Gay seminarians and priests have come under particular scrutiny because a study commissioned by the church found that about 80 percent of the young people victimized by priests were boys. (source)
So of course the priests who abused the children must be gay? I guess that means that they are saying that all gay men are pedophiles?
The Catholic Church has got to be the most “intrinsically disordered” church I have ever come across. Why people stay is beyond me, because the great majority of people attending the church do not practice what the church teaches. I know many Catholics and let me tell you, THEY USE BIRTH CONTROL!
I can live and let live I suppose. But when the church starts saying crap such as this, it makes me want to scream.
The church is doing a great disservice to it’s members by trying to convince people that they are dealing with the problem of pedophile priests in their midsts by getting rid of homosexual priests. The truth is, they knew about the pedophile priests for decades and they did nothing but ship them around from one place to the next to avoid the problem. Meanwhile, the lives of many boys have been damaged. And, it still goes on.
You can get rid of all the homosexual priests, assuming that they tell the truth about being homosexual. But, you will still have pedophiles in your midst.
NEWS FLASH TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: BEING HOMOSEXUAL AND BEING A PEDOPHILE ARE NOT THE SAME THING!
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Catholics need to come down to earth and look at the world as it is today and make changes that will benifit the whole church,some of their veiws are just outdated maybe back in the 1700 it was fine but the world has changed alot since then,they need to change with the times,birth control is a big issue they need to looked at,and priest should be allowed to marry,and putting the blame on gays is not going to help contol the priest who molest children,untill they wake up and relize that most people who molest are straight people not gay,our new pope needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
I totally agree that this is a good thing as far as the gay priests are concerned. Living your life as a priest always looking over your shoulder and watching every action you take is just no way to spend your life.
I'm actually a bit surprised that the Catholic Church would take this action, given that they are having a real problem keeping the priests they have and recruiting new ones. It just goes to show you how desperate they are to hide behind something.
Just my opinion...
Good point, Dan.
The REALLY bad thing is that it won't cull out the pedophiles -- most of whom self-identify as heterosexual.
This is a good thing in my opinion.
Once a gay catholic child realized his sexuality, one of the choices before him was to become a priest. Removing that option will be both beneficial to the gay person where he would not have to suppress his sexuality and have it come out in destructive ways years later. This will also be good for those of us who want to see the catholic church collapse for lack of available priests willing to take a vow of celibacy.
It's all good.
Dan