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[q]Vatican instruction on gay priests to be issued November 29
The Reverend Fred Daley, a gay Roman Catholic priest, had grown increasingly disturbed by Vatican pronouncements over the years that gay men were unfit for the clergy.
Then the situation escalated—some church leaders suggested that gays were responsible for the clergy sex abuse crisis. Daley was so angry, he did something last year that almost no other gay Catholic cleric in the country has done: He came out to his bishop,his parishioners, and his entire community to show that gays are faithfully working in the church.
"I'm as much a member of the church as anybody else," said Daley, of St. Francis de Sales Church in Utica, N.Y., who was ordained in 1974 and said he has never considered leaving the priesthood. "I love being a priest."
Researchers have estimated that thousands of gay clergy across the United States have dedicated their lives to a church that considers them "intrinsically disordered" and prone to "evil tendencies." Soon the Vatican will back up that teaching with a document that could set new restrictions on candidates for the priesthood—a pronouncement U.S. bishops may discuss in private during their national meeting starting Monday in Washington, D.C.
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The document would not apply to gays who have already been ordained, but gay priests said it would challenge anew their decision to work within a church whose pronouncements they consider discriminatory.
Anticipating the Vatican pronouncement, some gay priests are discussing collectively staying away from pulpits some Sunday to show how much the church relies on them. Other priests said they were considering revealing their sexual orientation to parishioners. Some are contemplating "outing" gay bishops who would be called upon to enforce the new guidelines.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid22555.asp
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The Reverend Fred Daley, a gay Roman Catholic priest, had grown increasingly disturbed by Vatican pronouncements over the years that gay men were unfit for the clergy.
Then the situation escalated—some church leaders suggested that gays were responsible for the clergy sex abuse crisis. Daley was so angry, he did something last year that almost no other gay Catholic cleric in the country has done: He came out to his bishop,his parishioners, and his entire community to show that gays are faithfully working in the church.
"I'm as much a member of the church as anybody else," said Daley, of St. Francis de Sales Church in Utica, N.Y., who was ordained in 1974 and said he has never considered leaving the priesthood. "I love being a priest."
Researchers have estimated that thousands of gay clergy across the United States have dedicated their lives to a church that considers them "intrinsically disordered" and prone to "evil tendencies." Soon the Vatican will back up that teaching with a document that could set new restrictions on candidates for the priesthood—a pronouncement U.S. bishops may discuss in private during their national meeting starting Monday in Washington, D.C.
[...]
The document would not apply to gays who have already been ordained, but gay priests said it would challenge anew their decision to work within a church whose pronouncements they consider discriminatory.
Anticipating the Vatican pronouncement, some gay priests are discussing collectively staying away from pulpits some Sunday to show how much the church relies on them. Other priests said they were considering revealing their sexual orientation to parishioners. Some are contemplating "outing" gay bishops who would be called upon to enforce the new guidelines.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid22555.asp
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