[AHerald]

Pope Benedict lost all credibility with me with the following statement re gay seminarians in 2005:

Are you Catholic? And have you read the entire document published by the Congregation for Catholic Education?

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

“If instead it is a case of homosexual tendencies that are merely the expression of a transitory problem, for example as in the case of an unfinished adolescence, they must however have been clearly overcome for at least three years before ordination as a deacon.”

Do you think that a homosexual is going to lose his homosexual "tendencies" even if he remains celibate for three years? Is a leopard going to lose his spots, a tiger his stripes? Homosexuals are what they are, and they are attracted to the church because it is swarming with men.

Homosexual "tendencies"? Unfinished adolescence? A transitory problem? Overcome in three years? What nonsense!!! All of it! All it does is open the door to homosexuals with suppressed homosexuality, who will then act on it. Putting children in their parishes at risk.