New guidelines suggests gay men can become priests

New guidelines released by the Italian Bishops’ Conference has suggested that openly gay men could become priests.

The conference’s guidelines said that gay men should not be barred from the priesthood, if they satisfy other conditions for appointment.

The report, titled Guidelines and Norms for Seminaries, wrote: “When referring to homosexual tendencies, it’s also appropriate not to reduce discernment only to this aspect, but, as for every candidate, to grasp its meaning in the global framework of the young person’s personality.”

But it did make clear that gay priests could not have sex like heterosexual priests, who have always been banned from the practice.

Previously, the Catholic Church has declared that gay people should be treated with dignity and respect but that homosexuality is “intrinsically disordered” and that men who

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