[ebb tide]

It appears neither you nor Francis understand Catholic teaching. The “tendency”, itself, is a problem.

The Church’s document, The Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, notes that sexual attraction to persons of the same sex is “ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

I understand that a homosexual orientation, in itself, is objectively and intrinsically disordered. Men with a homosexual orientation should never be admitted to the seminary to begin with.

But I would suggest that if a man is a vowed celibate and has indeed kept his vow, continuing in purity of life, he is not, in the operative sense of the word, a homosexual, even in orientation: that is, if he does not find his "identity" in the concept of "homosexual" and does not entertain it even in his mind.

In such case, I would say that by God's grace he has been freed from, and has overcome, a disordered orientation.