Word: priesting
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...while, Fitzgerald approached every task, even his job as a janitor at Amherst, as if it were a mission. "I know this sounds like malarkey, but if he were not a prosecutor, he'd be a priest," says Richard Phelan, a Chicago lawyer and friend of Fitzgerald's. "He's totally and completely dedicated...
...made my vow of chastity, but that did nothing to remove the strength of desire, to which I have succumbed in passing fashion." ABB? PIERRE, 93-year-old Roman Catholic priest and one of France's most revered public figures, suggesting he has had sex, in a book excerpted last week
...never dated,' you say, 'Well, when you walk down the street, who catches your eye?" And so, gently but relentlessly, Plante, one of several dozen U.S. therapists who screen candidates for Roman Catholic seminaries, attempts to ensure that the church knows the sexual orientation of one more would-be priest...
...comfortable with the 20% to 40% of the priesthood he believes are homosexually oriented. He notes that while Catholic teaching calls homosexuality a disorder, the American Psychiatric Association dropped that descriptive decades ago. "Being gay in and of itself, I would hope, wouldn't prevent someone from becoming a priest," he says. All four church-contracted psychologists interviewed by TIME agreed vociferously with his contention that homosexuality doesn't make one more likely to sexually abuse children. For instance, Father Gerard McGlone, a Jesuit psychologist and a vice president of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, believes some tightening...
...Evidence also showed that Erickson had been the target of allegations of sexual misconduct before arriving in Hudson, but the charges were never proven and he was never disciplined by the church, nor were the people of Hudson aware of the young priest's record. Because the defendant in this case was deceased, the hearing this week took place without a jury, and the judge ruled that if Erickson were alive there would be probable cause to charge him with sexual assault and murder. Erickson's attorney and parents, who maintain that he is not guilty, refused to attend...