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...longer appears a question of if, but how the Vatican will try to restrict homosexuals from joining the priesthood. As 256 of the world's bishops gathered in Rome for a three-week synod--the first under Pope Benedict XVI--details filtered out to the Italian press that something a bit less draconian than a blanket ban was in the works. A long-shelved document providing specific admission instructions to seminaries is expected to be issued in November. The "instruction" from the Congregation for Catholic Education would add some teeth to a long-standing but often loosely enforced...
...senior Vatican official told TIME that a more absolute ban on homosexuality would be impossible to enforce. "What does it mean to be gay?" he asks. "You have to acknowledge the complexity of the situation, but you also have to enforce the discipline." The first step, according to this official, is ridding the priesthood of those who proudly acknowledge a gay identity. "It's almost like glorying in the sin," he said. The church says gays should be treated with dignity, but its 1992 update of the catechism calls homosexual acts "intrinsically disordered...
...Benedict, 78, open his doors to K?ng ? The first answer may be as simple as the desire to catch up with an old friend and colleague: the two men had taught together at the University of T?bingen, and both had served as theological advisers during the Second Vatican Council. K?ng , 77, was quoted in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Tuesday as saying the Saturday dinner meeting at the papal summer residence in Castel Gondolfo was ?a reciprocal joy to see each other after so many years.? A Vatican statement said that the pair's standing doctrinal disputes were...
...When the Vatican wrongly left Israel off a list of countries that had recently suffered at the hands of terrorists, it was front-page news, and more than a few accusations of anti-Semitism were leveled. Major news outlets brought up the always touchy subject of Christianitys long-troubled relationship with Judaism, and demands were made for an official apology from the Vatican. Why, then, was this divestment attemptwhich Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center correctly labeled as functionally anti-Semiticbarely even covered...
...idea to have homosexuals in the seminary. It would be a lot like having co-ed showers in college." BRIAN SAINT-PAUL, editor of Crisis magazine, a Catholic journal, on word that the Vatican is beginning a survey of U.S. seminaries for "evidence of homosexuality," in an effort to prevent even celibate gays from becoming priests...