As a consequence of the abuse scandals in the Church, the traditionalist Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (FSSPX) of the deceased opponent of the council Archbishop Marcel Lefebrve demands that homosexuals must be excluded from the priesthood. Bishop Bernard Fellay spoke to the German news magazine Der Spiegel, saying the victims of sexual abuse have been "almost without exception sexually mature teenage boys". Fellay sees that as proof that it isn't celibacy that is a problem in the Church, but that it is instead homosexuality. "If you want to prevent abuse, then you must exclude homosexuals from the priesthood", says Fellay.
This demand is in agreement with the offical position of the Vatican. In 2005, in the first year of Pope Benedicts XVIs pontificate, in the midst of the abuse scandals then current in the USA, the Congregation for Catholic Education issued an instruction that homosexuals may not be ordained to the priesthood; stating literally "the Church, while profoundly respecting the persons in this condition, cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practice homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called "gay culture".
Translation by wsxyz, here.
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