The Church Cont.

Enough loopholes exist in the documents release that gay men (and even those with "deep seated homosexual tendencies") can remain candidates for the priesthood. The crux of the matter is that the document is an attack on gay men (and women).

Sullivan says it best:

Under Benedict, homosexuality itself is morally disordered; even chaste homosexuals are a threat to "priestly life"; homosexuals, whatever they do, are threats to society and the Church; the great gay priests of the past, including Mychal Judge or Henri Nouwen, have "no social value." This is not about hating sin and loving the sinner any more; it's about hating a segment of humankind, segregating them out for moral censure, and banishing them from moral discourse. It's about taking the fundamental message of the Gospels and inverting it.

There are many good men and women in the Catholic Church. Too bad that only a few reside in Rome.

.... fyi. The translation of the Vatican document on homosexuals and seminaries.