[ThomasMore]

Hi eastsider, Happy Easter

but my gut tells me that a witchhunt for homosexual candidates

I agree that there should be no WITCHHUNT, but the Church most deal directly for positive affects with the active homosexuals already in the priesthood. Having many a priest friend and knowing what they know; believe me, they know where the trouble is. The bishops know where the trouble is. Its a matter of "do they want to deal with it". I don't think they have any choice any longer.

PS: LOL! and they won't need peter-meters to resolve the majority of the problem.

[eastsider]

My best firend is a priest assigned to the Archdiocese of New York. The other night, he told me yet another horror story of sitting at dinner with three other priests, only to find out from the Chancery Office the following day that two of them were under the gun for you-know-what. "That's fifty per hundred!" he cried out in his best broken English.

The problem is deep -- and you're right, they all know who's who -- but it's not so complex that I have a problem drawing the line at ousting active homosexuals. (Out of Christian charity, I will withhold my remarks on the ephebophiles.)