Some gays face 'priesthood ban'

Robert Mickens reports in The Tablet.

Full text translated by Rocco Palma at Whispers in the Loggia.

(via Open Book)

Update: The New York Times quotes the Rev. Mark Francis, superior general of the Clerics of Saint Viator, a religious order based in Rome on how a homosexual seminarian might react.

"You could say, 'I believe I am gay, but that the tendencies toward being gay are not deep-seated,' " he said. "What constitutes deep-seated homosexual tendencies?" he said. "How does one judge that?"