[TheGeezer]

Another brewing issue that could be involved is whether seminaries should enroll priestly candidates who are homosexual but willing to abide by the celibacy rule.

I believe canon law forbids ordination of known homosexuals to prevent the kind of problems the Church has suffered in th elast thirty years.

[sitetest]

Dear TheGeezer,

"I believe canon law forbids ordination of known homosexuals to prevent the kind of problems the Church has suffered in th elast thirty years."

I don't think that such an impediment is noted in Canon Law.

I've read a document issued during the reign of Pope Blessed John XXIII that forbade? counseled strongly against? the ordination of known homosexuals, but that isn't part of Canon Law.

That the stricture has gone unenforced by the Holy See for over four decades strongly suggests that the Holy See did not/does not view it as enforceable positive law.

That being said, my own personal opinion is that known homosexuals should not be ordained.


sitetest

[NYer]

I believe canon law forbids ordination of known homosexuals to prevent the kind of problems the Church has suffered in th elast thirty years.

Those bishops amenable to 'progress' work around the law.

[Romulus]

The 1961 Document, "Careful Selection and Training of Candidates for the States of Perfection and Sacred Orders" (as promulgated by the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for Religious on February 2, 1961) speaks directly to the question of homosexuality in the priesthood, as does Pope Paul VI's encyclical Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (“On Priestly Celibacy”).

[johnb838]

I don't see how they can ordain people who claim to be homosexual unless they deny that it's an intrinsically disordered condition. Which they don't. Men are supposed to have their sexual issues worked out if they are to be able to handle the demands and challenges of the celibate life. Many are called, few are chosen. Fewer still live up to it, but that's beside the point.