Posted on 10/25/2008 3:17:47 PM PDT by NYer
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican has finished work on a long-awaited document on the psychological testing of seminary candidates.
The document, titled "Guidelines for the Use of Psychology in the Admission and Formation of Candidates for the Priesthood," was to be released at a Vatican press conference Oct. 30, the Vatican announced.
Prepared by the Congregation for Catholic Education, the text was being issued in several languages, including English. The congregation has worked on the document for at least six years.
In 2005, Pope John Paul II told the education congregation that a candidate's ability to live a life of priestly celibacy must be "carefully verified" so that there is moral certainty about the candidate's emotional and sexual maturity.
"In light of present-day social and cultural changes, it can be at times useful that educators turn to the work of competent specialists to help seminarians comprehend more thoroughly the requirements of the priesthood, recognizing celibacy as a gift of love to the Lord and to one's brothers," Pope John Paul said.
Later in 2005, the congregation issued norms that ruled out the priestly ordination of homosexuals, but without spelling out who should determine whether a candidate for the priesthood had homosexual tendencies.
Sources have said one reason the document took so long to prepare was that the psychological testing of priesthood candidates remains a controversial issue at the Vatican.
Speaking to journalists at the press conference will be Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the education congregation; Archbishop Jean-Louis Brugues, secretary of the congregation; and Father Carlo Bresciani, a psychologist and a consultor to the congregation who has written on bioethics and sexual morality.
Ping!
Awesome!! This will help put an end to many of those who seek to enter and destroy the Church from the inside.
QUESTION #1 - are you GAY?
They need to apply the test to the Formation Committee members in each diocese.
Most of the American protestant ordaining bodies already make extensive use of psychological tests.
However, the real questions about fitness for ordination are not addressed by these tests (which are better equipped at identifying major psychological problems). Rather, we’re talking more about personality TYPES. If you look at the population in general (and its distribution into personality types) you’ll notice that clergy have certain types over-represented, and others under-represented.
Bottom line, a personality that works just fine in one vocation just won’t work for another.
Formation Committee, heck, apply it to the Bishop.
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