Is the pope right to ban homosexual priests?
Pope bans homosexuals from ordination as priests
Applicants with 'gay' tendencies won't be admitted to seminaries
Pope Benedict XVI has given his approval to a new Vatican policy document that bans men with homosexual tendencies from being ordained as priests, reports Catholic World News.
The text, approved by Benedict at the end of August, says that homosexual men should not be admitted to seminaries even if they are celibate, because their condition suggests a serious personality disorder that detracts from their ability to serve as ministers, says the CWN report.
In order to fix a problem you must first correctly identify the problem. The sex scandal inside the Catholic Church is not about pedophilia. It is about adult males having sex with teenage males. We are talking about predatory homosexuals who are abusing their position to seduce teenage males. This is a no-brainer it is long overdue. My question is what do you do about the guys who have already slipped through the cracks?
To fully grasp and understand this problem I recommend the following books.
Goodbye, Good Men : How Liberals Brought Corruption Into the Catholic Church
by Michael S. Rose
The Myth of the Pedophile Priest
by PHILIP JENKINS
posted by Pat Campbell @ 9:18 AM
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The sad thing is that this even needs to be said. YES! BAN THEM! and BAN them from all contact with children!....Jim in PA
Along with the homosexual priests, the church also allowed liberation theology to take hold. The Church needs to return to its SACRED roots and forget all this hand holding and the feel good nonsense that goes on during Mass. The Mass is no longer holy....like a Chamber of Commerce meeting. I go to Mass to worship and honor the Saviour of the World.
Sadly I think the Church cares more about its image and reputation than anything else. The bible teaches us that homosexuality is an abomination, yet the Church has allowed homesexuals to be priests. When these same priests began molesting children, they moved them from parrish to parrish and protected them from legal prosecution. Only in recent years has the Church been forced to face this problem. I think this is a lip-service PR move, nothing more.
Priests That take a vow Celibacy should beable to become Priests.
You have that percent In all genders Stight Or Gay who Prey upon Children. Not all Gay people are molesters and not all stright People are either so why category Gay people as Molesters. I imagine there are stright religous man who also prey on children as well ....
Its not just The Catolics Priest ....Who ever without sin cast the First stone (Goes for the Pope as well)
"The sex scandal inside the Catholic Church is not about pedophilia. It is about adult males having sex with teenage males. We are talking about predatory homosexuals who are abusing their position to seduce teenage males."-PC
The Catholic Church is in a state of chaos. Few people take the popes words seriously. Catholics have a huge divorce rate, huge abortion rate, huge extra-marital sex rate. Mix that in with gay preditory priests and you have a faith in crisis. This pope simply does not have the charisma as pope John Paul II. This will probably alienate the masses even further. Most Catholics are Catholics in name only.
I think Anonymous 10:47AM is Mel Gibson.
wild cur please check out...
The Myth of the Pedophile Priest
by PHILIP JENKINS
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0534.html
The Chicago study also found that of the 2200 priests, just one was a pedophile. Now, many people are confused about the distinction between a pedophile and a person guilty of sex with a minor, but the difference is very significant. The phrase "pedophile priests" conjures up nightmare images of the worst violation of innocence, callous molesters like Father Porter who assault children of six or seven years old. "Pedophilia" is a psychiatric term meaning sexual interest in children below the age of puberty. But the vast majority of clergy misconduct cases are nothing like this. The vast majority of instances involve priests who have been sexually active with a person below the age of sexual consent, often sixteen or seventeen years old, or even older. An act of this sort is multiply wrong: it is probably criminal, and by common consent it is immoral and sinful; yet it does not have the utterly ruthless, exploitative, character of child molestation. In almost all cases too, with the older teenagers, there is an element of consent.
The truth will set you free!
How can the Pope tell what priests are Homosexuals???
How can the Pope tell what priests are Homosexuals???
It's pretty simple. They are the ones in bed with the teenage boys.
How exactly can you tell who is gay or who is straight? I know straight guys who aren't exactly macho, and gay guys who act just like "normal" straight dudes! How can you tell? Also, official Catholic doctrine states that homosexuality is something gay people didn't choose and can't help or change. In other words, the folks on "Queer Eye" cannot magically transform into heterosexuals with the power of Jesus. It's just not going to happen. So what's a gay guy to do? Kind of a tough situation.
The sad thing is, there are lots of stories of heterosexual priests abusing girls and women, and those stories are overshadowed by the Vatican's weird obsession with homosexuality. The Church needs to wake up and stop trying to solve every problem by looking for a convenient scapegoat. Bottomline: straight people aren't saints either. Believe it or not, they do bad stuff too.
Why is it that when a grown man seduces an underage girl it is called statutory rape, but when a priest seduces a underage boy it is called a homosexual act? I don't get it. They are all pedophile priests in my book, regardless of the age of the victim.
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