[Claud]

Reacting to earlier reports that the document would ban even celibate men with gay tendencies, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin told the British Catholic newspaper The Tablet last month:

"You don't write off a candidate for the priesthood simply because he is a gay man."

Mmmmmm...nooo...actually....I think you do, Your Excellency.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Makes you wonder about the connection between this attitude and the problems in the Irish church....no, not really. They tend to go hand in hand.