[SouthCarolinaKit]

Since the candidate for Holy Orders is a man who is in the state of grace, and active homosexuals are not, isn't an actively homosexual priest an oxymoron? They don't need 'defrocking' because they weren't legitimately 'frocked!' This is another liberal Church result, just as the majority of Catholic Massachusetts Catholics are Democratic. If they are truly Catholic, they have to be against abortion and can't believe in the abortion, any time all the time, Democrat Party!

[oremus]

I think you're right, and I believe I read somewhere that Ratzinger or someone from the Vatican said that their ordination *may* (depending on each individual case) be invalid - null and void - as in the case of a marriage which is annulled - it is determined that there was no marriage to begin with, no Sacrament took effect.