Conservative Catholics Ready to Rumble with Dissenters over Homosexual Priest Ban

VATICAN, November 18, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Less than two weeks away from the widely rumoured November 29 publication date of a new Vatican document dealing with homosexuality and the priesthood, dissenters from the church's stand against ordaining homosexuals - among them priests and bishops - have taken their claims public. As LifeSiteNews.com reported, Rochester, NY Bishop Matthew Clark, and a former international leader of the Dominican Order have publicly endorsed ordaining homosexuals despite long-standing Catholic discipline against the move. (see coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/nov/05111406.html )

More than coming out publicly, some homosexual priests have threatened to, according to the Guardian newspaper, stay away from their pulpits to protest. Others have said they will reveal their homosexuality to their congregations and still others have threatened to 'out' homosexual bishops.

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