"Fr. Ivo Da C. Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a quick answer: there should not be > "homosexual Catholic priests", but if there are, > as the media are publicizing, then homosexuality > does not cease to be "an aberration", "abnormal".
Fr. Ivo da C. Souza, Here in N. America, its estimated that 4 out of every 1,000 priests are homosexual. Many of them joined the priesthood because they did not want to disclose to their family that they were gay. I used to go to a church in Washington, D.C. that had a gay priest. I have no problems with gay priest if they keep their vows of celibacy. > Let the competent people investigate the causes and > help them, with love and compassion. Let us also > study why there is such a wild propaganda, which > will not help the sick priests nor the Church of > God. What are the background factors for such an > aberration? Can we do something for them? It is > important to save them...as much as poor human > efforts are concerned... There is a bigger problem than gay priests in the R.C. Church. The church also has known paedophiles who still are priests. Every time parishioners report such paedophiles to the church authorities, the authorities keep mum or, in the worst case scenario, transfer the priests to another parish. In other words, the paedophiles have new kids to prey on. > It is our task, yours and mine! Yes, I agree, it's both our tasks to keep the church in order. Unfortunately, for the past 10 years, the Vatican has been extremely slow in addressing the problem of gays and paedophiles in its ranks. Mervyn3.0 ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
