[poinq]

You can be a gay priest. You just can’t be a practicing gay priest. And that means if you are actively gay. You can’t be a practicing priest. But You can be a gay priest.

[Fungi]

No, no and no.

[SkyPilot]

You can be a gay priest. You just can’t be a practicing gay priest. And that means if you are actively gay. You can’t be a practicing priest. But You can be a gay priest.

Well there sure are a lot of them.

How the Catholic Priesthood Became an Unlikely Haven for Many Gay Men

[ealgeone]

In what universe?

[Bellflower]

A real Church doesn’t have a “gay” person as a leader, even if he is not practicing. A Church leader must be above and beyond others in their spirituality and above reproach in their practices. Someone struggling with being “gay” can be accepted, loved, encouraged and supported in their endeavor to follow Christ, but they are not eligible to be a Church leader. Not every Christian is.

That being said I do not support the Catholic Church in the first place, as it is engulfed in way to many false doctrines and practices.

[Hambone 1934]

I still think he announced because he is looking for sex and doesn’t want his parishioners shocked if they see him smoothing other men...Otherwise,why bother saying anything???

[Mercat]

So why “come out” if he plans to honor his vows?

[stormhill]

What a queer religion!

[fwdude]

You can be a gay priest. You just can’t be a practicing gay priest. And that means if you are actively gay. You can’t be a practicing priest. But You can be a gay priest.

"Gay," in this day and age, has a specific meaning. It is more than experiencing same-sex attraction. It implies ADVOCACY and participation.

Regardless, would a pedophile priest be accepted even though he was "celibate" and took a vow not to molest?

[HamiltonJay]

Yes sadly I’m the 1960s the church let openly gay but non practicing homosexuals into the priesthood, and that began the path to the child sexual abuse that happened for the next several decades and was covered up as homosexuals infiltrated many diocese and covered up for these men to protect the fact they too were trading homosexual sex acts and other things for position and power within the church hierarchy.

The church let the fox into the Hen house and will be paying the price for generations. Homosexuals are a cancer in the church, they control many diocese. Trade sexual favors and destroy anyone who speaks up against them.