1) ...declared this weekend that gay men should not be ordained as priests.
Leave it to the Boston Globe to make such a pedantic statement and then label it a 'declaration'. A firm grasp on the obvious is a talent just outside the grasp of the Boston Globe. There are quite a few passages in Scripture which describe who will NOT inherit the Kingdom of God and homosexuality is on the list, so nothing new here.
2) The comments ... were made at a time when a growing body of research suggests that a large proportion of Catholic priests are gay, and scholars who study sexuality and the priesthood said any effort to bar them would lead to a dramatic reduction in the number of priests in the United States.
I'm sorry, but I really don't have much respect for people who dedicate their lives to researching homosexuality in the clergy. This dedication smacks of perhaps,...ulterior motives? ...to be tactful about a gross exageration of their 'research' ability. How does that read again?..."Scholars who study sexuality and the preisthood"??????
They've gotta be right up there with world league chefs making culinary creations of peanut butter, hardball candy in plastic wrappers and mayonaise,...sorry,....the category is so absurd as to demolish any credibility of the author or the Globe.
''If they were to eliminate all those who were homosexually oriented, the number would be so staggering that it would be like an atomic bomb; it would do the same damage to the church's operation,'' said A. W. Richard Sipe, a former priest and psychotherapist. Sipe has been studying the sexuality of priests for 25 years and has written three books on the subject.
Sipe is a pervert. No need to study this. Excommunication is intuitively obvious as a more fruitful endeavor. BTW, If things are that bad, then great, get it over with and lets move on.
So it would seem. He's trying to justify his abandoning of his vows by claiming that countless other priests are doing the same. I don't buy it.
You are so ill-informed on the subject of homosexuality in the priesthood that anything you say is suspect.
I'm sorry, but I really don't have much respect for people who dedicate their lives to researching homosexuality in the clergy.
Your "respect" is beside the point; these people do, in fact, know whereof they speak. The Church has a serious problem, and Navarro-Valls (who is not a priest) complicated it with his buffoonish statements about the validity of ordination of gays.