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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.

If they traced it back to its source I'm sure we'd find a big, pink Vatican prelate.

LOL! That's what I'm thinking, too. Or maybe a big pink Jesuit, because the Tablet has been busy exulting over this.

I can't see what good it would do them to spread misinformation, though. After all, if it's not true, then that will be revealed soon enough. On the other hand, I suppose they might want to confuse the issue so much that the document - if it genuinely does try to root out the homosexual culture in the Church - will be unenforceable or at least more difficult to enforce.

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.

And one who violated the Vatican order to secrecy during the synod. Personally, I'm shocked that a lavendar would do such a thing! /sarc