What's it going to take for the Vatican to change its hardline doctrine against homosexuality?

Whomever the College of Cardinals selects as pope to succeed Benedict XVI, the new Holy Father would do well to consider the case of a 39-year old Italian writer and ex-seminarian from a small town in Sicily, who set himself on fire in St. Peter's Square.

Alfredo Ormando's suicide in January 1998 was purposeful as his correspondence made clear. "I hope they'll understand the message I want to leave," he wrote to a friend beforehand. "It's a protest against the Church that demonizes homosexuality, and at the same time all of nature, because homosexuality is her offspring."

And yet the Vatican was emphatic in its denial that Ormando's suicide had anything to do with the Church's harsh condemnation of homosexuality.

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