I have to agree that this is odd. If someone has engaged in/supported an abortion, why wouldn’t repentance be enough?
Attempted suicide. This disgusts me. How many soldiers with injuries have attempted suicide?
Who would make better priests than men who have seen evil at its worst and recovered from emotional and physical wounds.
Gave it a go myself after dealing with the unrelenting pain for 3 or so years. Survived obviously.
I’m a good man and if, God forbid, wife passed and I wanted to join the priesthood, i’d be considered damaged goods?
Might be time to shop for a new branch of Christianity.
Because you have knowingly helped in the murder of an innocent. Forgiveness is available but the priesthood is not.