Father Alphonse de Valk, a Toronto Basilian order priest, historian, and publisher of Catholic Insight magazine told LifeSiteNews.com this latest report is all a rumor mill. He expanded, the pro-homosexual lobby within the Catholic Church is participating in a rumor mill with the hope they can water down a document which rejects a homosexual condition as not suitable for the priesthood.
1 posted on
10/07/2005 6:13:00 PM PDT by
murphE
To: little jeremiah
I read of your disappointment on the other thread. Here is some hope.
2 posted on
10/07/2005 6:22:07 PM PDT by
murphE
(These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed but his own. --G.K. Chesterton)
To: murphE; xzins; Gamecock; HarleyD; topcat54; Alex Murphy; Frumanchu; zeeba neighba
How did "never" and "no homosexual" turn into "just swell after a three-year waiting period"?
Did they think we'd forget what they said a few short weeks ago?
3 posted on
10/07/2005 6:22:26 PM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
(There are very few shades of gray)
To: murphE
4 posted on
10/07/2005 6:24:36 PM PDT by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: EdReform; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; stage left; Yakboy; I_Love_My_Husband; ...
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Good news! Apparently that article earlier stating that the Vatican would not really screen out homosexuals was WRONG! Read the above and ease your mind.
Freepmail me AND DirtyHarryY2K if you want on/off this pinglist.
[Big ol' Whew! Wipes forehead with back of hand.]
9 posted on
10/07/2005 10:58:11 PM PDT by
little jeremiah
(A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
To: murphE; little jeremiah
A report widely circulated today from the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera claims the expected Vatican document on homosexuality and the priesthood says those who exhibit homosexual tendencies cannot be ordained unless they can show they have lived chastely for at least three years. Wait a minute. I thought that chastity was a prereq for a priest. Even heterosexuals have to be chaste...was there EVER another standard for homosexuals?
10 posted on
10/07/2005 11:01:47 PM PDT by
andie74
(Proud of my white trash heritage)
To: murphE; saradippity
knew it!
Thanks for sharing this!
14 posted on
10/08/2005 12:45:58 AM PDT by
kstewskis
("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big".....Jerry Fletcher)
To: murphE
The report in
Corriere della Serra made no sense to me. How do you
demonstrate that you've been chaste for three years? Pass through an anal semen detector? Take a polygraph test? The latter is the only method which I can think of and aside from this, it is a totally unmeasureable standard. You can
say you've been chaste for three years.....but
demonstrate it.......I don't think so.
For the Vatican to acquiesce to such a standard would be to effectively give the green light to homosexual ordination. The barrier to homosexual ordination would be essentially non-existent in the face of this non-quantifiable standard and would depend on nothing more than the seminarian's word.
I'd like to know where the Corriere della Serra report originated. If they traced it back to its source I'm sure we'd find a big, pink Vatican prelate.
To: murphE
This is EXACTLY what I took those previous articles to be. Lavendar wishful thinking. No surprise that the National antiCatholic Distorter and their Vatican "insider" John Allen were so quick to pick it up.
19 posted on
10/08/2005 7:02:21 AM PDT by
Antoninus
(The greatest gifts parents can give their children are siblings.)
To: murphE
Well, finally, some clarity. I know the "pro-homosexual lobby" has an intense interest in harming the Catholic Church (one way or another, sure looks like it), but the recent rumor mill is pure grovelling.
I'll again pose this question: should people affiliated with this "lobby" even BE affiliated, much more so members of, the Priesthood? I can't perceive one reason why they should be, after reading this -- every effort to compromise about this issue ('gays as Preists') reduces the respect for Scripture.
23 posted on
10/08/2005 2:35:33 PM PDT by
BIRDS
To: murphE
26 posted on
10/10/2005 9:08:17 AM PDT by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
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