[Tantumergo]

"This is a very serious issue that the bishops are just not paying enough attention to it nor are they intervening in it. Complacency is the word."

I just wish Ratzinger would hurry up and get this document on queers in the priesthood promulgated. At this rate the Pope will die before it is released and then the whole thing will just be shelved.

[ninenot]

Should be a very interesting document, indeed. The 1961 Instruction was applied to Orders--and although common sense would tell one that it applies universally to the priesthood, it obviously was ignored.

There have been two statements made on the topic from the Vatican--Navarro-Valls' "they should NOT be ordained" and a more circumlocutious comment by a Cardinal, just short of "NO!"

Ratzinger & Co. have to figure out how to say what needs to be said without effectively 'tossing' all the extant homosexuals out of the priesthood.