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[Fido969]

According to canon, priest can be gay, but not actively gay. Nor can a heterosexual priest have sexual relations.

[scouter]

This is a perfect example of why I say this guy is gaslighting us. One day he says there’s too much faggotry in the seminary and the next day he tells a homosexual to pursue a vocation to the priesthood. So many examples of this. Classic gaslighting.

BTW, I’m not convinced he’s validly pope, on several accounts.

[irishjuggler]

Bergoglio is so... Bergoglian. What does it mean when he says “Go ahead with your vocation”? Does that mean that the seminary which allegedly booted him has to readmit him? Or that another seminary has to take him? I’d love to hear his former seminary’s point of view on all this. Was he hitting on other seminarians, pushing LGBT propaganda, etc.? Does Bergoglio know or care about the details? Likely not. This is drive-by Bergloglianism at its best. He vomits out his usual inane, half-baked platitudes, “everyone is called!”... and then moves on with the problem of Lorenzo to be dealt with by everyone else.

[DPMD]

A gay man expelled from a seminary? The only way this is credible is if he was expelled for something like theft, vandalism, or other crime unrelated to sex. For decades, seminaries have been seen as havens for homosexuals.

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Francis Writes to Homosexual Ex-Seminarian: "Continue Your Vocation"

Francis wrote a handwritten letter on 1 June to Lorenzo Michele Noè Caruso, 22, a history student from Florence who was expelled from the seminary of the diocese of La Spezia after revealing his homosexual temptations with which he identifies.

After Francis reportedly complained on 20 May about too many homosexual clerics and the need to expel even half-homosexual, effeminate men from the seminary, Caruso told his story to IlMessaggero.it (29 May).

He also wrote a letter to Francis, who replied immediately. On Saturday, Francis wrote to Caruso:

"Do you know that clericalism is a plague? It is an ugly worldliness and, as a great theologian says, 'worldliness is the worst thing that can happen to the Church, even worse than the time of the concubine Popes'. Jesus calls everyone, everyone. Some people think that the Church is a customs office [where everybody is checked] and that is bad. The Church must be open to everyone. Brother, continue with your vocation".

Caruso called Francis' response "beautiful": "The real Pope [Francis] is not the one we were led to believe. This letter gives me hope. The seminary is still a dream that has not been put aside".

Imagine if Caruso had written to Francis to complain that he had been expelled from the seminary for his love of the Holy Mass and the Latin liturgy.