http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4276912.stm
The Pope is getting tough.........and the gay "angst" is enough to make you sick.
Some estimate that more than 25% of US Catholic priests are non-practicing homosexuals.
Notice the emphasis on "non-practicing" i.e. celibate. That's the new drumbeat: why can't "non-practicing" homosexuals be priests?
Because the inclination is objectively disordered and afflicted with evil tendencies.
I like the way BIRDS put it:
I wrote this earlier and I'll write it again here because what I find most telling is that homosexuals currently in the Priesthood opt to threaten to leave the Church and abandon their vows in light of this instruction from Pope Benedict but they don't consider abanding the sin itself of homosexuality, in effect, refuse to recognize God's very statement about it, and/or if recognizing, are rejecting God's terms.