As the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops gathered in Chicago Thursday
\nfor a meeting to review their sexual abuse policy, Cardinal Francis George
\nsaid homosexual men should not be admitted into seminaries.<\/p>\n
George, who is archbishop of Chicago and vice president of the U.S. Conference
\nof Catholic Bishops, said in light of the sexual abuse crisis, bishops are
\npaying closer attention to the sexual backgrounds of men interested in entering
\nthe priesthood. Part of the commitment is that a man is celibate when he enters
\nseminary.<\/p>\n
"Also, anyone who has been part of a gay subculture or who
\nhas lived promiscuously as a heterosexual would not be admitted … no matter
\nhow many
\nyears in his background that might have occurred," George said. <\/p>\n
I don’t think a policy that would have excluded St. Augustine
\nfrom the priesthood would be a good policy. This is the problem with a broad
\npolicy or zero tolerance ideas that seek to be seen as fair over being discerning
\nand prudent. That seem to make a strait line moral equivalency between homosexual
\nactivity and sinful heterosexual activity. Both are gravely sinful, though
\nhomosexual activity is also gravely disordered. This is what happens though
\nwhen those accepting men to the seminaries have not been prudent in their judgments
\nin the past forcing some fit-all-policy to be forced into place.<\/p>\n
The 1961 Document, “Careful Selection and Training of Candidates
\nfor the States of Perfection and Sacred Orders” was promulgated by the
\nVatican’s Sacred Congregation for Religious on February 2, 1961.<\/p>\n
“Advancement to religious vows and ordination should be There is also suppose to be in the works a Vatican document The role, if any, of sexuality in the sexual abuse scandal is I always enjoy the unnamed "critics have charged" boilerplate Bishops are expected to approve a broader definition of sexual The bishop’s conference seems to be more and more a studyarchy. As the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops gathered in Chicago Thursday for a meeting to review their sexual abuse policy, Cardinal Francis George said homosexual men should not be admitted into…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbarred to those who are afflicted with evil tendencies to homosexuality or
\npederasty, since for them the common life and the priestly ministry would constitute
\nserious dangers”. <\/em><\/p>\n
\nto again address this topic and reports of the draft document say that it
\nreiterates what the 1961 documents said.<\/p>\n
\nbeing debated. Critics have charged there is no evidence that gays are more
\nlikely to engage in abuse than heterosexuals. Others have said placing attention
\non homosexuality is a way of deflecting attention from bishops who allowed
\nthe scandal to unfold.<\/p>\n
\nthat so often ends up in articles. Unnamed critics with unmentioned research
\nor evidence is thrown in to "balance" an article. The fact that the overwhelming
\ninstances of abuse was in fact predominately homosexual ephebophilia is ignored
\nwhich is why so many articles on abuse work overtime to ignore or not mention
\nthe gender of abuse victims. They never seem to get around mentioning why the
\nintroduction of altar girls did not create a spike in the amount of girls being
\nabuse.<\/p>\n
\nabuse that covers priests who buy or disseminate child pornography, and they
\nwill be asked to approve spending $1 million in reserve funds for an in-depth
\nstudy of the "causes and contexts" of the abuse crisis. The study
\nis expected to focus on whether abuse might be related to homosexuality, celibacy
\nand other issues. [Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n
\nGo forth among all nations and initiate studies. Bishops don’t have to lead
\nor make decisions, they just inaugurate one more study to put off actually
\nusing their common sense and acting on it.
\nTo even
\nconsider celibacy to be a factor in sexual abuse is to buy in to the culture.
\nTo ignore that the discipline of priestly celibacy has not created this amount
\nof sexual abuse in the past. To ignore that these abuses started to spike
\nin the sixties and seventies which is definitely not when priestly celibacy
\nwas introduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"