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I think if a man truly loves the Lord, and is celibate, then I personally don't see a problem with it. If a gay man has pedophile tendencies, that is an entirely different matter!!! He should not and never be ordained. But the pope brings up a good point, about being disordered. I really don't know.

The article makes the following observation:

The Rev. Thomas Krenik...worries that a blanket ban on gay priest-candidates will re-create the very conditions the Vatican wants to eradicate.
"For some men who happened to be homosexually oriented, they would go further in the closet," Krenik said. "That would be my fear, that this could become an even worse problem."

This, to me, is an admission that homosexuals are liable to act out by molesting boys. It is given in the context of not being able to identify as being homosexual, but as Rytwyng so aptly put it:

A "celibate gay" is still attached to his abomination in the core of his identity, even if he doesn't actually practice it physically. The phrase "celibate gay" is about as nonsensical as "nonpracticing racist" or a "nonusing drug addict". If you reject the behavior as immoral under all circumstances -- as a faithful priest must -- then, why identify with it at all?

The homosexual inclination is "objectively disordered" hence homosexuals are unqualified to be priests.