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Bishop Says Edict Allows Some Gay Priests: U.S. Catholics at Odds Over Interpretation of Vatican's New Directive (Alan Cooperman, November 30, 2005, Washington Post)

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said yesterday that under a new Vatican directive on homosexuality, men with a lasting attraction to members of the same sex can still be ordained as priests, as long as they are not "consumed by" their sexual orientation.

Bishop William S. Skylstad's flexible interpretation of the document, which was officially issued in Rome yesterday, was sharply at odds with the position of some other U.S. bishops. They said the Vatican intended to bar all men who have had more than a fleeting, adolescent brush with homosexuality.

It was guys like Bishop Skylstad who caused the problem and the Vatican should use this opportunity to break their opposition to the Church.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 30, 2005 12:00 AM