More than 10 years ago, Joseph Prever found himself surg the ter for anythg that might help him: he was gay, Catholic, and nfed. Rourc were srce for a man stgglg wh homosexualy and tryg to rema fahful to the Church’s teachg.
Contents:
- WHAT DO LOOK LIKE TO BE GAY – AND A PRACTICG CATHOLIC?
- ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
- WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?
- WHAT ABOUT ‘GAY’ PRITS?
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
WHAT DO LOOK LIKE TO BE GAY – AND A PRACTICG CATHOLIC?
* are catholics allowed to be gay *
Q: Sce we have the right to receive the sacraments, why do the Church now say that homosexual men n’t be ordaed as prits? Then we n exame some relatively recent statements om the Vatin ncerng the specific qutn of ordag men of homosexual orientatn to the prithood. For some time, the issue of homosexualy, or at least of homosexual tennci, was one on which bishops did not always agree.
Some felt that so long as a man do not actually engage homosexual activy, the mere fact that he feels clatns that directn should not, and of self, bar him om beg a prit.
‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
In orr to end any nfn, the Vatin’s Congregatn for Catholic Edutn — which has thory matters of semary trag — issued a document signed to clarify the Church’s posn on the issue of homosexual men studyg for the prithood.
WHAT SHOULD A GAY CATHOLIC DO?
The Instctn Concerng the Creria for the Discernment of Votns wh regard to Persons wh Homosexual Tennci view of their Admissn to the Semary and to Holy Orrs was approved by Pope Benedict for publitn 2005.
The document reerat the posn of the Catholic Church that homosexuals are to be profoundly rpected, as children of God. Neverthels, stat unequivolly that the Church “nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practice homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled ‘gay culture.
A man who is judged by his bishop to be of homosexual clatns that are signifint enough to prevent him om beg a prit has no grounds to ntt the bishop’s cisn, and his rights are not beg vlated this se. It do, however, fd necsary the days to assert that the homosexual outlook is fundamentally patible wh the misterial prithood.
WHAT ABOUT ‘GAY’ PRITS?
While the Church asserts that homosexualy is disorred and nnot perm homosexuals to be ordaed, do ntue to pray for their spirual wellbeg — and as Catholics we ourselv should do the same.
The Roman Catholic Church, the largt Christian nomatn the Uned Stat wh an timated 62 ln members, has weled celibate gay and lbian people to s church life but creasgly is beg more tolerant even of this populatn. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, a text which ntas dogmas and teachgs of the Church, nam “homosexual acts” as “trsilly immoral and ntrary to the natural law, ” and nam “homosexual tennci” as “objectively disorred.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
” While the Catholic Church do not nsir “homosexual orientatn” sful and of self, do have a very negative attu toward .
OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
The 1986 Letter stat, “Although the particular clatn of the homosexual person is not a s, is a more or ls strong tenncy orred toward an trsic moral evil; and th the clatn self mt be seen as an objective disorr. A 2005 Vatin document, approved by then Pope Benedict XVI, stcted that the Church “nnot adm to the semary or to holy orrs those who practice homosexualy, prent ep-seated homosexual tennci or support the so-lled ‘gay culture.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
” ment––ma rponse to a qutn about the acceptabily of gay men as prits––his statement is not official church teachg. Today, many men’s relig orrs and some bishops often make their own cisns regardg gay men as ndidat for the semary and prithood. More than 10 years ago, Joseph Prever found himself surg the ter for anythg that might help him: he was gay, Catholic, and nfed.
Google the words "gay Catholic" and one of the top s to appear will be Prever's own blog, a blog wh the tagle: "Catholic, Gay, and Feelg Fe. The blog is about what 's like to be a gay Catholic – a gay Catholic who is of urse, celibate – and I say 'of urse' bee that seems to me like the only optn if you're gog to be both gay and Catholic. My iends and I joke that there's a gay Catholic renaissance on, or actually a gay Christian renaissance on, and we're proud to be at the foreont of – or at least we tell ourselv that we're at the foreont.
It was hard the sense that I'd actually always said that people shouldn't be public about beg gay, bee was not anybody's bs and I felt that would lend legimacy to this ia that beg gay is a sort of a sgle way to intify yourself: I actually still sort of hold that posn – kd of.