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...Vatican announced late last year its plans to release a document on the advisability of admitting gays into the Catholic priesthood. At Harvard in December, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporters Alliance’s anti-homophobia efforts reminded the community to scrutinize its own attitudes of acceptance of sexual minorities. Many American Catholics have chosen this past year, in which abuse revelations and anti-gay sentiment have injured Catholic communities around the country, to examine the Church’s teachings on sexuality and sin and to envision how these teachings may apply to a culture from which...
...ordination of homosexual men "inadvisable and imprudent and, from the pastoral point of view, very risky." A Vatican official told TIME the letter "represents the mind of the church" and hints that a watershed document on rules for seminary admission, expected next year, will bar gays from entering the priesthood. --By Jeff Israely
...Catholic priest whose iconoclastic views made him a hero to baby boomers in the 1970s; in Bremen, Germany. In essays and books like 1971's Deschooling Society, he criticized the Catholic Church, said public education shouldn't be mandatory and accused hospitals of making people sicker. He left the priesthood after the Vatican called him "politically immoral...
...summoned in his defense has been the fact that he has ordained many good men to the priesthood,” Gomes wrote, “that he has been a fearless advocate for the poor and the homeless, that he has lent the prestige of his office, often denied by his predecessors, to significant efforts...
...communities, Law has done the opposite, retreating behind legal briefs, heading toward bankruptcy to eschew moral obligations and withdrawing into the overwhelming internal secrecy of the Catholic Church itself. Indeed, in a world where the Catholic Church has come to mean a tightly-knit, spiritual community and not a priesthood divorced from the congregation, the Boston Archdiocese has become increasingly reactionary. Instead of opening its doors to abuse victims, Church officials have withdrawn. And Cardinal Law’s overarching entanglement between matters of finance and morality seems like a throwback to the days of the medieval church, when...