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Reference photo of a Priestly Ordination. | Credit: Daniel Ibáñez / EWTN News.

Interpreting Church in Italy’s Seminary Document as Accepting Homosexual Priests “not a correct reading": Italian Bishop

Jan 14, 2025

The interpretation of the latest document, which Italy’s Catholic Bishops issued on the formation of Priests in the European nation, that it gives an opening towards the Priestly Ordination of men identifying as gay “is not a correct reading” of it, a Catholic Bishop in the country, whose capital city, Rome, is home to the Vatican, has clarified.

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