Remember when you could depend on Catholic priests as the bedrock of orthodoxy? Me neither...

...or, Headlines like this make Fyodor's old brain hurt.

From Catholic Online:
Gays in clergy widespread, Vatican decisions made in ignorance, scholar says

With the much-anticipated Vatican document on gays in seminaries soon to be published, a visiting scholar at a Jesuit university has written that homosexuality in the priesthood is widespread and that the church’s decisions about gay clergy are being made in without proper study or understanding.

Father Reese, currently a visiting scholar at Jesuit-run Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif., resigned as editor in chief of America magazine in May 2005 after, according to Jesuit officials in Rome, repeated complaints from then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, who objected to the magazine's treatment of sensitive church issues.

The Italian news agency ADISTA published the Italian text of the Vatican document Nov. 22, a week before it was expected to be released at the Vatican. A Vatican spokesman did not confirm or deny the authenticity of the text, entitled "Instruction on the Criteria of Vocational Discernment Regarding Persons With Homosexual Tendencies in View of Their Admission to the Priesthood and to Sacred Orders."

Father Reese noted Nov. 21 that, while “estimates of homosexuality among priests have ranged from 10 percent to 60 percent,” U.S. bishops have discouraged research into clergy sexual orientation or activity because of the bad publicity that would result.

“They don’t know because they don’t want anyone else to know.”

They don't want anyone to know because they are the ones responsible for those sodomites being priests in the first place and, by extension, the abuse those sodomites have visited upon innocent boys for more than a generation.

A 2002 Los Angeles Times survey did find that 20 percent of priests said they were homosexual or had some homosexual tendencies, he said, adding that those involved with the survey said the numbers most likely reflect underreporting. The survey also found that 26 percent said that a homosexual subculture definitely or probably existed in seminaries, he added.

May God have mercy on all souls.

The result, he said, is the “Vatican is making decisions about the appropriateness of ordaining homosexuals in total ignorance of how many current priests are homosexuals, how well they observe celibacy and how well they do ministry.”

Homosexuals are much more promiscious than heterosexuals. That's a fact, Father. Read the scientific literature. A celibate homosexual is about as common as a conservative Democrass.

Concerning the question of the right of ordination, he said both Vatican officials and advocates of the ordination of homosexuals and women “miss the point.”

“True, no one has a right to ordination. It is a vocation, a call from God,” he said. “Then, it is not a violation of a human right, it is violation of a divine right – the right of God to call whomever he chooses to the priesthood.”
The real question, he added, should be, “’Are they called or not?’”

I doubt God calls many men who define themselves by what they do with their genitalia. That alone should prevent self-proclaimed "homosexuals" from entering our seminaries. Would you allow a man whose desire for fornicating with women was so strong he oriented his entire life around that desire? Of course not, Father.

Let me put it this way. We want our priests to be men of God, not men of the flesh. Or is that too much to ask these days?

He said that, based on reports as to the contents of the Vatican document, there seems to be a presumption that “sexual orientation is a choice” that can be changed, while “most psychologists would hold that homosexual orientation is permanent and univocal.”

Most psychologists are barely one step up the intellectual ladder from Phrenologists. Since when did we let them decide what sin is?

And though he agrees that for some “homosexual orientation is an absolute obstacle to ordination,” he wondered whether the church should ordain men whose “heterosexual orientation is sufficiently ‘strong, permanent and univocal’ as to make an all-female environment a risk,” with many priests working in such an environment in a parish setting, for instance.

Exactly, Father. It is the responsibility of bishops and teachers to get to know their seminarians well enough to discover if they will make good priests. It is time for those in authority to stop avoiding this (and other) responsibilities they have chosen as part of their vocation.

Father Reese said that some bishops and Vatican officials have indicated that the document is part of a response to the sex-abuse crisis in the United States, as some 80 percent of victims of clergy abuse were boys.
Yet, he said, “many of the priests who abused boys were in fact heterosexuals.”

Prove it. Find me a heterosexual male who likes sex with boys or men and I'll show you a homosexual. Either that, or the definition of the word is meaningless.

And while “many in the Vatican have considered the sexual abuse crisis a uniquely American issue,” Father Reese said that more and more countries are proving that it is “not a uniquely American problem.”

Sadder still,” he said, “is the fact that the rest of the church seems to be repeating the same mistakes that many American bishops made in response to the crisis, rather than learning from our mistakes.”
He suggested that the problem of homophobia, existent in the United States and even greater in Africa and Latin America, may be driving the content of the document.

First of all, if "homophobia" were a real word, it would mean "fear of the same". Second of all, if your an altar boy, there is good reason to fear homos.

“Remember the Vatican is writing a document for the entire world,” Father Reese said. “Bishops in Africa and Latin America would certainly not welcome a document that indicated any openness to homosexuals in the clergy. In Africa, such a document would open the church to attacks from Muslim clerics and in Latin America it would open the church to attacks from fundamentalists.”

How about attacks from Catholics who remember sodomy and fornication are mortal sins? Are you really a Catholic priest, Father Reese?

“Only in the United States is this issue even being discussed,” he said.

That's because our perverts have political power and the decent people of this country are sick and tired of being lectured to by morons who define their very existence by the type of mortal sin in which they joyously revel.

Lord, please protect us from all priests who have lost their way.