My advice to the Catholics is to slice the cancer away with the detachment of a surgeon, until the wound is truly clean. Take no compromises, make no packs.
I would hope so too, but a few nights ago on Catholic radio (EWTN), a caller phoned in with a question about how many seminarians are gay and the priest answering questions had to admit to 25-50%. So those are the church's own figures.
I knew a couple of gay priests in San Francisco. They had no love of God and certainly none for the Church, but found their life as priests "easy." "Where else would I have so much time off?" One of the priests I knew was HIV positive--the other was his lover. Beyond words!
So the church has become an unofficial hangout for gays. Probably a successful target of those pushing the gay agenda. They need to be excised before they bring the whole thing down--which is probably their intention in the first place.
In years past, I believe that some gays became priests for the right reasons and did not have sex. This wouldn't bother me any more than a straight priest with a strong attraction to women giving it up and staying celibate. But today, the gay thing is so massively disordered and destructive that even a celibate gay priest, if any, should probably get the boot.
How many articles have we read about churches becoming empty in the last year? Matthew 24:10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
Perhaps it might be time to start getting worried -- Maybe dusting off the bible and reading it might be in order? Matthew 24:32-34 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
However, I know one celebate homosexual (by inclination or "orientation") pastor who is completely orthodox, even to the point of calling "gay" sex a sin and actively opposing the entire gaysbian agenda. He does not consider himself "gay", and culurally or in terms of his acting on his homosexual desires, he is not.
As for the Roman Catholic Church, we have all read testimonies of heterosexual priests and seminarians who feel shut out by a "gay mafia". Then there is the "sex scandal", which overwhelmingly involves rogue priests preying on male teenagers or children. To say that this has noting to do with "gays" is a big lie!!!!
No orthodox catholic church body should have gaysbian clergy, whether celebate or not!!! However, there needs to be some way, if possible, to make room for the few homosexual clergy who are truly orthodox. And in the case of the Roman Catholic Church, there may well be the need to make up for the lost numbers by ordaining married men, starting with married deacons. This should be part of an effort to recover the heritage of the undivided orthodox catholic church, not a purely "practical" matter of numbers of priests.