ACI Prensa Staff, 11 June, 2024 / 12:15 pm (ACI Africa).
During a meeting Tuesday with some 160 priests at the Salesian Pontifical University, Pope Francis again discussed the issue of the admission of homosexuals to seminaries.
The Vatican Press Office reported that during the closed-door meeting, the pope returned to the topic of the admission of men “with homosexual tendencies to seminaries, reiterating the need to welcome them and accompany them in the Church and the prudential indication of the Dicastery for the Clergy regarding their entry into the seminary.”
The statement did not specify which indication from the Dicastery for the Clergy the Holy Father was referring to.
According to the instruction published in 2005 by the then-Congregation for Catholic Education — the current Dicastery for Culture and Education — the Church “cannot admit to the seminary and Holy Orders those who practice homosexuality, present deeply rooted homosexual tendencies, or support the so-called ‘gay culture.’”
The subject has surfaced repeatedly in recent weeks.
