Does the Roman Catholic Church have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy?

[Boojatta]

Suppose that a man discloses that he is gay, but also discloses that he is and has always been chaste. Would that eliminate the possibility that he could become a Roman Catholic priest? Would it not eliminate the possibility, but simply make it somewhat less likely that he could obtain employment as a Roman Catholic priest?

As far as I know, a woman is automatically excluded, so I have no reason to ask about a woman who discloses that she is a lesbian. I suppose that student priests have to pass a visual inspection or something. Thus, a woman wearing a disguise as a man might be able to work undercover as a Roman Catholic priest, unless the qualification procedure actually involves visual inspection of the genitals.

[sandnsea]

1. The act of homosexual sex is the sin

Not homosexual feelings. Technically. Just repeating Church doctrine here, not mine.

Yes a homosexual can be a Catholic priest. All that is required is abstinence.

Although that has gotten to be a less friendly policy in recent years.

[imdjh]

2. Our local Bishop, Robert Lynch, was in the papers for sexual harassment and he's still Bishop

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. they used to. i believe they now prohibit gay clergy

[mitchtv]

4. you are right

no Gay men permitted to join a seminary. They won't defrock a celebatr Gay priest, however, I believe

[Boojatta]

5. Do priests tell their congregation that any gay men in the audience

should listen carefully to the sermons because the sermons are coming from someone who has a religious authority higher than any gay men in the audience could ever have?

[mitchtv]

6. I've never heard of anyone talk directly to the Gays

but I left years ago and never went back

[Doc Martin]

7. Does Pope Ratzinger (a/k/a Benedict) Set Off Your Gaydar?

It is so obvious yet no one talks about it. While I can't answer the question re whether Ratzinger is homosexual, I can say my gaydar goes off the charts every time I see him.

Is his obsession with homosexuality a matter of projecting self hatred on to others?

[Meeker Morgan]

8. Ratzi the Nazi?

He sets off my creep-dar.

[Doc Martin]

9. Papa Ratz

Creepdar, hmmm... absolutely.

[closeupready]

11. Not especially, but I have never seen any footage; often, it's only seeing someone in action

that my gaydar goes off, due to a gesture or manner of walking. (Which, by the way, doesn't mean at all that my gaydar is accurate.)

If I were German or if I lived in Italy or even if I just followed his shit closely, perhaps I'd have a better opinion.

But with Ratzinger, it's sort of like that book, "Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Ratzinger, I Knew When I Found Out He Had Been A Member of the Hitler Youth." I think that was the beginning of my departure from the RCC.

[Not Me]

12. Oh honey...

check out the red Prada loafers.

[closeupready]

13. More like ruby slippers.

n/t

[hedgehog]

10. It's very much don't ask , don't tell. Supposedly, all the gays were

removed from American seminaries last year. Of course, that means everyone who is openly gay was removed.

[Boojatta]

14. When you say "very much", do you mean specifically the "don't tell" part?

Are seminary authorities conscientiously pursuing a "don't ask" policy? Asking would seem to be associated with the initial steps in a removal policy.

Civilians who were citizens of Denmark during WWII are considered to be very lucky if they were Jewish because, although Denmark became a zone with no Jews, the removal was to various destinations on this planet Earth rather than to the hereafter. However, it wouldn't make much sense to say that in Denmark there was very much a "don't ask, don't tell" policy with respect to whether or not a Danish citizen was likely to be classified by Hitler's helpers as "Jewish."

A student union of seminary students who wanted to imitate the Danish king's example (he wore a yellow star) could quit the seminary en masse whenever alleged gay orientation is the basis for removal of a seminary student.