Vatican: Priests cannot be active homosexuals, support gay culture

By John Thavis
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Vatican document took a strong line against priestly ordination of men who are active homosexuals, who have "deeply rooted" homosexual tendencies or who support the "gay culture."

Here is the rest: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506699.htm.

Here is the alleged document (in Italian): http://www.adistaonline.it/congregatio.PDF?PHPSESSID=44a6650d610faefd12672b662ddd6336.

Here is CWN's unofficial translation of the as-yet unofficial document: http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=40891.

Comments

[Ed Peters]

About six people have now sent this to me, and a little bit of me wants it to come out that it's bogus, just to remind people to wait for the official release. But this reads genuine to me.

[Mark Brumley]

Yes, apart from the translation, it seems genuine. We'll see.