21st Century Purge

By the Vatican against its gay priests, nuns, bishops, and cardinals. From NY Times:

"Investigators appointed by the Vatican have been instructed to review each of the 229 Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States for "evidence of homosexuality" and for faculty members who dissent from church teaching, according to a document prepared to guide the process."

This is part of the Vatican's move to bar homosexuals from being admitted into the seminary.

Is there something wrong with being gay? Is that the message the Catholic Church is trying to teach? From my experience in Catholic schools the message reiterated by my Jesuit teachers was that being gay was not a sin, but engaging in homosexual acts was considered sinly (I most emphatically disagree with this second contention).

All priests must abstain from sexual conduct. What is the difference between abstaining from homosexual or heterosexual behavior? Your not having sex either way. I think this is just a misbegotten attempt to blame the sex scandals on homosexual priests that are now supposedly "outside the Church". Pedophilia and homosexuality do not correlate.

I hope that all priests and religious persons stand up and denounce this terrible development. It is immoral and wrong.