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Has Pope Francis signed a document that gay men can now become priests?

11.06.2025 11:47

Has Pope Francis signed a document that gay men can now become priests?

Some of them are oriented as homosexual or bi, but aren’t having sex with men, or women, and don’t plan to, for religious reasons, etc.

Every ordination class has gay men in it, statistically. (The science is in the article, below.)

Roughly 4.5% of men have sex exclusively with men and another 2.5% have sex with both men and women. That’s seven percent, gay or bisexual.

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He got in trouble recently for using an impolite slang word in Italian, (in a private conversation with an unfriendly cardinal, who couldn’t wait to tell the press), complaining about too much homosexuality in seminaries. It roughly tranlates as faggotry, if there were such a word.

Some of those religious men are attracted to the priesthood for a lot of reasons, including the “no sex with anybody” thing and how that’s supported and accepted and honored in the Catholic church, plus maybe discomfort with women or a host of other possible explanations.

No, he didn’t sign such a document. For one thing, how do you tell who’s even gay at all? There’s no blood test. Just what people disclose, pretty much. If they are seminarians, who are the majority going to tell?

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Pope Francis is well aware that there are a lot of gay priests.

It’s widely known and accepted that gay men have been around forever, including in ordination classes, and on the papal throne in certain periods. Pope Francis, in spite of his world-wide publicized gaffe, has championed the rights of gay and lesbian people — supporting gay civil unions (so long as they don’t call them marriages), and loving welcome to people of all sexual orientations (especially if they don’t have sex with anybody).

I don’t think so, and suspect I would have heard of it. Everybody would. It’s man bites dog news

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