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Monday March 4, 2002
POPE'S SPOKESMAN SAYS HOMOSEXUALS "JUST CANNOT BE ORDAINED" PRIESTS
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VATICAN, March 4, 2002 (LSN.ca) - In an interview published in the New York Times Sunday, Pope John Paul II's spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls cited canon law on homosexuality and said, "People with these inclinations just cannot be ordained." The interview was in relation to the shocking recent revelations about sexual abuse involving certain priests.
Dr. Navarro-Valls continued, "That does not imply a final judgment on people with homosexuality," and added, "But you cannot be in this field." According to the Times Dr. Navarro-Valls compared the situation of a man with homosexual inclinations who becomes a priest to that of a man with the same affliction who marries a woman unaware of his condition. Just as such a marriage can be annulled, considered invalid from the first, the ordination might similarly be invalid, he said according to the Times.
Dr. Navarro-Valls noted the Pope's distress with the abuses reported. "He has shown tremendous sadness, a very physical sadness that affected his whole body and said, "How can this happen?' "
See the report in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/national/03VATI.html?ex=1015822800&en=36d62625...
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