[wideawake]

This is completely bogus.

"If they can show they have been celibate for at least three years."

No Vatican document would ever say this, because "celibate" means unmarried!

All candidates for the priesthood are supposed to be celibate!

If the idiots who made this article up meant "chaste" - how can you prove chastity in men?

It's impossible.

People with this inclination have objectively disordered affections. They're spiritually disabled and should never be ordained under any circumstances.

[ElPatriota]

But it said the Vatican will ban men who "publicly manifest their homosexuality" or show an "overwhelming attraction" to homosexual culture "even if it is only intellectually."

Whoooo.. I am surprised. This in my opinion ENCOURAGES homosexuals to join the church. I don't like this... does not seem right somehow.

[absolootezer0]

how can you prove chastity in men?

castration? make the priests eunochs. problem solved.