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The correct descriptions, JP, are homosexuals and pedophiles. You have to be equally concerned about those deviants that are already in the priesthood and you need to make an unequivocal statement concerning getting them all out. Now. These tragically watered-down statements mean nothing.

I'm afraid that Orual is right. This statement was deliberately ambiguous, is subject to extensive interpretation, and is likely to be interpreted away (if not downright ignored) by many American bishops. I'm waiting for the priesthood to be de-Queerized and for my sons to be safe with Catholic priests. I am not all that hopeful.

As I wrote in post #35, I see similarities in this statement with Cardinal Archbishop Karol Wojtyla's early statements against Communism in Poland. Although I agree that the U.S. bishops haven't done enough to keep homosexuals out of the priesthood (and may even have been complicit in getting them there), homosexuality is an undeniable "deviation in one's affections." Even though this isn't the "All homosexual priests are hereby defrocked" statement we would have liked, it is a positive start and I am hopeful that it will lead to our shared view of the real solution.