Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Inside the Vatican: "Nothing Extraordinary"?

An analysis of the new Vatican document on homosexuality and the priesthood, dated November 4 and published in Rome on November 29. [This article will appear in the January issue of "Inside the Vatican" which also contains the magazine's choices for the "Top Ten People of 2005."]
- by Inside the Vatican staff

Last month we published the text of the Congregation for Catholic Education's new Instruction dealing with the admission of homosexuals to seminaries, entitled Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with Regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in View of Their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders. This month we analyze the gestation, purpose, background and tone of the text, what it says and leaves unsaid, its significance, and reactions to it. - The Editor
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