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?None so Blind? commentary on the ?NY Times: Prospective Catholic Priests Face Sexuality Hurdles?

By ADF Alliance Alert

Diogenes writes at Catholic Culture: "The challenge for American seminary rectors, the New York Times tells us, is 'deciding whether gay applicants should be denied admission under complex recent guidelines from the Vatican that do not explicitly bar all gay candidates but would exclude most of them, even some who are celibate.' . . . The New York Times says that the confusion can be traced to the complexity of the Vatican's instructions. Yet ordinary readers, skimming those same instructions, get a clear picture. So why the confusion? Mark Jordan, a frequent critic of Church teaching on homosexuality, gives away the game: 'And not the least irony here,? he added, ?is that these new regulations are being enforced in many cases by seminary directors who are themselves gay.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 01, 2010 (boomark / email).