The Vatican's much anticipated Instruction on homosexuality and candidates for the priesthood is unfortunate both in its timing and its contents. It comes ahead of a series of "visitations" by Vatican officials early next year to seminaries in the United States. The purpose is to find out how young men, both gay and straight, are being prepared for the priesthood. Is it true, as some critics have alleged, that some seminaries tolerate "lavender networks" among their students, in total opposition to the spirit and purpose of priestly formation? I'd like to know the answer to that and to a lot...