Catholic Church now allows gay people to become priests, but sex is out of question

Catholic Church has allowed gay people to become priests. At the same time, they will be prohibited from having sex.

Despite the easing of prohibitions, the Catholic Church believes that "homosexual activity is intrinsically disordered." This was reported by Euronews.

According to new recommendations published by the Bishops' Conference of Italy (CEI), gay people are officially allowed to become priests. Also, the conference's new guidelines for the training of priests does not recommend prohibiting openly gay people from being ordained.

The report, titled "Guidelines and norms for seminaries," says that when considering candidates with homosexual tendencies, their evaluation should not be limited to this aspect alone. Seminaries will be advised to consider candidates in full.

The clarification states that gay priests should never have sex. However, this requirement is nothing new, as all Catholic clergy take a vow of celibacy.

Officially, the Catholic Church teaches that homosexual people should be treated with dignity and respect, but it still believes that homosexual activity is "intrinsically disordered." At the same time, all women, regardless of their sexual orientation, are still denied access to the Catholic priesthood.

As a reminder, earlier, the Vatican has stated that representatives of sexual minorities (gays, lesbians and transgender people) can participate in church rites. In particular, they have the right to be godparents and witnesses to weddings in the church.

As reported recently, Pope Francis does not rule out that the Catholic Church could bless same-sex couples. In his opinion, requests for blessing should be treated with "pastoral charity", and church ministers cannot be "judges".

Only verified information is available on our Telegram channel OBOZ.UA and Viber. Do not fall for fakes!