I’ll have to check. Seems I recall a change where the Church said homosexuals can serve because they would be priests and therefore would not engage in homosexual activity, and therefore not commit the sin of homosexuality.
Seems I recall something like that.
The teaching of the Church (the Catechism) basically teaches that a person (could be anyone-—priest or otherwise) who might have an orientation or inclination in a certain direction in and of itself is not a sin. It’s when you ACT or ENGAGE in such behavior that it becomes a sin. If one assumes that only homosexuals were interested in serving as priests, then the policy of mandatory clerical celibacy makes perfect sense. In fact, given the deadly nature of STDs associated with homosexual acts, ALL individuals with such an orientation should practice celibacy IMHO.
It is my understanding that it wasn’t actual “admittance” but a less stringent vetting of future priests (which of course is really....admittance).
If you find anything, please post.
But I agree with you 100%. This isn’t about celibacy; this is about perversion and the modernists of the post Vatican II Church is completely at fault.