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Gay Priests and Gay Marriage: What the one issue has to do with the other.
The sex-abuse scandal currently plaguing the Catholic priesthood has already grown to the point where it poses a serious threat to the power, prestige, and credibility of the American Catholic Church. The sky, so to speak, is falling. An institution whose fundamental strength and continuity (whatever its many problems) could once be taken for granted is experiencing a genuine crisis.
Yet, over and above its significance for the Catholic Church, the greatest lesson of this scandal has yet to be drawn. The uproar over priestly sex abuse -- especially the calls to do away with both priestly celibacy and the Church's traditional teachings on sexuality - - offers ...
- Melbourne's Catholic Church to ban gay priests.
- News wire article from: Asian News International March 28, 2009 700+ words
Byline: ANI Melbourne, March 28 (ANI): Melbourne's Catholic Church has embraced a Vatican suggestion to ban gays from becoming priests. All potential priests will have to undergo tests for sexual...
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- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) McDonald, Natalie Hope November 22, 2005 700+ words
...its efforts to purge gay priests. Reportedly, the...that end, the Roman Catholic Church will likely demand...offering support to gay priests. The Augustinians...recognition by the Roman Catholic Church. It was not until...with the National Catholic Church ...
- Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, O.P.(gay priests)(Catholic Church)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight de Valk, Alphonse April 1, 2006 700+ words
...disproved because he has already said that there are many good gay priests. He pushes the Church's specific concerns about homosexuality...embraced the homosexual culture. He says he knows many "gay priests." How many? Are they openly "gay?" He uses the ambiguous...
- Are gay priests to blame? David France, who wrote the definitive investigation...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Steele, Bruce C. April 13, 2004 700+ words
...s easy to dismiss the child abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church as having little to do with gay people, because pedophiles...the just published Out Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal (Broadway Books), says it's not...
- Mass confusion: the Roman Catholic Church blurs the clear lines between...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Freiberg, Peter April 30, 2002 700+ words
For the Roman Catholic Church, these are tough times...the large number of gay priests in U.S. parishes...500 priests found that gay priests respect their vows of...refrained from blaming gay priests for the abuse scandal...
- The dangerous lives of gay priests: fearing a witch-hunt in the wake of the sex...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Dahir, Mubarak July 23, 2002 700+ words
...a secret support group of gay priests who meet regularly for dinner...Then leaders of the Roman Catholic Church began blaming gay priests for the sex scandals that...hunt and public exorcism of gay priests--whether accused of sexual...
- February 4, 1986: gay priests and catholic hypocrisy. (From the Advocate...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Romesburg, Don April 30, 2002 700+ words
...pedophilia scandals in the Roman Catholic Church in Boston and elsewhere have brought renewed suspicion of gay priests and revived the issue of...exploring the challenges faced by gay priests and lesbian nuns. The church...added another. Yet some gay priests stay in the ...
- Italian gay priests speak out.(WORLD BRIEFS)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter December 23, 2005 700+ words
VATICAN CITY -- Defending the role of gay priests as an asset to the Catholic church, a group of gay Italian clergy has issued an open letter that criticizes recent Vatican instruction on admitting homosexuals to...
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