Homosexuals becoming a member of the priesthood should stay within the closet, based on new directive from the Holy See
The Vatican has given homosexual males the go-ahead to change into monks, offered they continue to be celibate and chorus from selling “homosexual tradition,” based on a directive revealed by the Italian Bishops Convention (CIE) on Thursday.
The doc was agreed by the CIE in November and revealed on Thursday with authorization from the Vatican. It should stay in drive for a trial interval of three years.
It states that “individuals with gay tendencies” wishing to hitch the clergy should decide to celibacy, as their straight counterparts additionally do.
Nonetheless, the doc continues, the Church “can’t admit to the Seminary and to Holy Orders those that observe homosexuality, current deeply rooted gay tendencies or assist the so-called homosexual tradition.”
“The aforementioned individuals discover themselves, in reality, in a scenario that significantly hinders appropriate relationships with women and men,” it states.
Whereas the brand new guidelines supply a path into the priesthood for homosexual males, they don’t depart from the language of a 2016 order issued by Pope Francis, which bans males who “observe homosexuality, [and] present deeply rooted gay tendencies” from turning into monks.
Francis has issued a collection of considerably contradictory statements on homosexuality since he grew to become Pope in 2013. Requested that yr whether or not he supported homosexual males becoming a member of the priesthood, he replied “who am I to evaluate?” Nonetheless, in 2018 he really useful that homosexual monks ought to keep out of the Church, saying “It’s higher for them to depart the ministry or the consecrated life quite than to reside a double life.”
Final yr, the pontiff apologized after complaining in an interview that there’s an excessive amount of “frociaggine” (Italian for “faggotry”) occurring in seminaries.
Whereas the Pope has by no means contradicted the catechism of the Catholic Church, which states that “gay acts are intrinsically disordered,” he has made a number of concessions to the LGBT group, together with a ruling in December 2023 permitting monks to bless single and same-sex {couples}.
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