Article: The Vatican and homosexuality.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

THE STATEMENT BY the Vatican on homosexual seminarians and priests confirms the hierarchy's underlying absolute certitude that just about all sex is sinful and the sex drive, leading inevitably to sin, has only one barely tolerable function, that of procreation. To have anything to do with sex disqualifies one from a holy life and certainly from the ranks of the clergy. The asexuality of monasticism is the one true form of spiritual living.

The document on homosexuality in the priesthood only reinforced what is already required of all who aspire to consecrated ranks in the church. No matter what sexual orientation one has been given, the requirements are:

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