Pope Approves Barring Gay Seminarians [View All]

Catholic World News Brief

Pope Benedict XVI has given his approval to a new Vatican policy document indicating that men with homosexual tendencies should not be ordained as Catholic priests.

The new document -- which was prepared by the Congregation for Catholic Education, in response to a request made by the late John Paul II in 1994 -- will be published soon. It will take the form of an "Instruction," signed by the prefect and secretary of the Congregation" Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski and Archbishop Michael Miller.

The text, which was approved by Pope Benedict at the end of August, says that homosexual men should not be admitted to seminaries even if they are celibate, because their condition suggests a serious personality disorder which detracts from their ability to serve as ministers.

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