A candidate who is actively homosexual is not celibate.
A priest who encourages homosexuality in the "gay community" encourages sin.
A priest who has homosexual tendencies has a burden of temptation but he may keep it in check. It is questionable to put him in a position of authority where he may manipulate someone into an affair, but I don't know how common that is.
If he acts on any of his sexual desires, he has sinned (regardless if it is with a man or a woman, an adult or a child). If thoughts of his carnal desires dominate his day, then he will probably not be a good moral leader. If he finds men more attractive than women but does not ever bring it up or act on that desire, I don't know that there is a problem.
I say this because if the position is to urge that sinners "go forth and sin no more", what sin is the priest committing? Lust? Depends on how much he thinks about it.
If he acts on any of his sexual desires, he has sinned (regardless if it is with a man or a woman, an adult or a child).
This is the point that so many people miss. The rules are not written just to target homosexuals.
A Catholic priest, at least one who is a pastor, is more than a preacher or expounder of doctrine.
He is supposed to lead his flock by example as well as by word.
The document (as leaked) says it very well - a man who finds men more attractive than women cannot establish normal relations with either men OR women, at least not the normal relations that the Church desires its pastoral leaders to have.
This is clear and, within the terms of reference of Roman Cathlicism, convincing.
A priest who has homosexual tendencies has a burden of temptation but he may keep it in check. It is questionable to put him in a position of authority where he may manipulate someone into an affair, but I don't know how common that is.
If he acts on any of his sexual desires, he has sinned (regardless if it is with a man or a woman, an adult or a child). If thoughts of his carnal desires dominate his day, then he will probably not be a good moral leader. If he finds men more attractive than women but does not ever bring it up or act on that desire, I don't know that there is a problem.
Weegee, you stated that very clearly. It is a cruelty to a man to put him into a situation (seminary, rectory life, altar servers, etc.) where he will be tempted intolerably to disregard his vows of celibacy and chastity, and it is cruel for the parishoners who expect him to shepherd them away from sin. The Church is wise to insist that it not be burdened with employees who cannot or wilfully will not refrain from sin in order to coddle their own lustful pleasures. It is better for these men, "godly" as they may be, if such be the case, to remain in the world.