St. John's chaplain resigns over new Vatican teaching

St. John's chaplain resigns over new Vatican teaching

This article raises an interesting issue... If gays are so "inherently disordered," what effect would an "outing campaign" have on the church?

I know of at least a dozen gay priests personally, two of whom are PRESIDENTS OF UNIVERSITIES, and with this new Catholic teaching, it seems like the church is setting themselves up to lose some high quality men who are already serving it. I would never never never subject my friends to any sort of humiliation, but it is foreseeable that someone else could. The end result would probably be negative anyway, because it would take progressive leadership out of prominent spots and replace them with "Benedicts". Even so...

Another theological point which is interesting is one that a priest friend told me when I was still looking into the priesthood. Essentially, if the vatican says that gays cant be priests, they invalidate each and every sacrament that a gay priest has performed, past and present. This is an interesting little quirk about the Church: current decisions do indeed affect past souls. So any baptism, communion, wedding, or last rite that a gay priest (or gay pope, because there have been rumors about some of the Renaissance boys) has done effectively never happened. That's a lot of new souls now in hell. Seriously. This is Catholic doctrine. Look it up.

Looking for a good reason to get an anulment? Just tell them your priest was a bit limp-wristed.