Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work.
Ahhhhh...... Is that the best you can come up with?
In an interview published Sunday, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico told La Repubblica daily he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with gay men as part of his work as a psychoanalyst. He said that he pretended to be gay in order to gather information about "those who damage the image of the Church with homosexual activity."
Yeah, and he reads playboy for the articles.
The Vatican said Saturday it was suspending Stenico after he was secretly filmed making advances to a young man and asserting that gay sex was not sinful during a television program on gay priests broadcast Oct. 1 on La7, a private Italian television network.
There have long been allegations that there are gays in the Roman Catholic priesthood, but the Stenico case is unusual because he is a relatively high-ranking Vatican official. He heads an office in the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy — the main office overseeing all the world's priests.
Not for long....
The case comes at a particularly sensitive time, just two years after the Vatican issued tough new guidelines effectively barring gays from the priesthood — seen in large part as a response to complaints about a "gay subculture" in U.S. seminaries.
The guidelines say the church cannot admit men to the priesthood who practice homosexuality, or have "deeply rooted homosexual tendencies or support so-called gay culture." However, the document said that if the gay tendencies were just a "transitory problem," the men can be ordained deacons if they successfully overcome those tendencies for three years.
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3 comments:
I don't feel that they should be ordained or be deacons, since the Church is opposed to homosexuality, this is how the church is being attacked from the inside out.
I don't feel that they should be ordained or be deacons, since the Church is opposed to homosexuality, this is how the church is being attacked from the inside out.
I understand what you are saying and I'm certainly not in favor of giving any practicing homosexual a leadership position in the church. Still, we are all sinners. If a man repents and has proven that he has been healed for a 3 year period who am I to bar him from the priesthood?
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