Posted on 09/24/2005 1:33:27 PM PDT by NYer
News reports surrounding the review of Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States that the Vatican has organized have focused on the possibility that Rome plans to bar gay men from ordination to the priesthood, regardless of their readiness to remain faithful to their pledge of celibacy.
Such a ban would have serious consequences, of course. It would reverberate far beyond the gay candidates for ordination whom it might directly affect and even beyond the celibate gay priests who would inevitably take it as a judgment on their own calling and years of service.
In fact, the Catholic Church's moral stance on same-sex attraction and sexual activity may well prove to be a touchstone issue for the next generation of Catholics' attitudes toward church authority, just as the renewed papal condemnation of contraception proved to be for Catholics in the 1970's and 80's.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
How about Cino Editors and pseudo reporters mouthpieces for the maggot infested Homosexual agenda pushers.
Did I ping this out yet? I'm officially Over Whelmed.
You're right.
FYI and reading pleasure:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420619/posts
Root Causes, Homosexual Consequences
http://www.drthrockmorton.com/idoexist.asp
I Do Exist
Just because their are, for instance, thieves and adulterers in every culture doesn't mean that such "tendencies" are necessarily inborn and they can't change. Everyone has differing temptations and weaknesses, although the human condition is pretty similar for everyone. People can change - if they want do enough.
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