[kosta50]

Sounds like the policy adopted by the U.S. military: don't ask and don't tell. Ultimately, it will be on their conscience to enter a seminary and become ordained, knowing that they are gay. I think +Benedict XVI did the right thing: he re-ffarimed that homosexuality is not the "other normal." The Church will not ask, but if someone comes out of the closet, he is out.

[Lord let me see]

"The Church will not ask, but if someone comes out of the closet, he is out."

Well, not exactly. If he makes it to ordination - even if he has to lie, deceive, or is in-correctly guided, then there is no "outing" either physically, or by sexual orientation once he is a priest.

And currently there are no canonical penalties or consequences for being a homosexual priest or bishop. They can (and they have already) reach (reached) levels of absolute power and control in the hierarchy.

The instruction is a significant step, a necessary one, but it is just one step of several that need to be made.