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The latest news is not so surprising: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5432475,00.html.
But this article, written about a week ago, contains some startling statistics: http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/vatican-intensifies-stand-against-gays/2005/11/14/1131951100275.html
Even if these figures are a gross exaggeration do they not suggest that the new Vatican policy concerning gays is "unhealthy"?
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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Over the years, I have been close friends with three catholic priests (though I was a High Anglican myself) and all three were gay - one inactive, one active and one who could only be described as 'rampant'. But all of them had an awe-inspiring sense of responsibility to their calling. They went into the world and served their Church unreservedly - so yes, the Vatican has a problem: it needs to recognise that merit in the priesthood has much to do with humility and humanity, and little or nothing to do with sexual orientation.
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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I laughed out loud at this:
> Il Giornale quoted the document as saying the church should avoid discriminating against gays, but it could not ordain them. For a priest, homosexuality represents "a situation that impedes the building of correct relationships with men and women", it said.
And celibacy doesn't?
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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How different from http://keshetrabbis.org - a site I have been watching grow with some pleasure, though not of that faith
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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