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Vatican Orders Review of Homosexuality in Nation’s Seminaries

HeadlineSep 16, 2005

The Vatican has ordered a crack down on homosexuality at seminaries in the United States. According to the New York Times, the Vatican is sending teams of investigators to all 229 seminaries in the country in order to interview every faculty member and seminarian as well as everyone who graduated in the last three years. Archbishop Edwin O’Brien is supervising the review. Last week he told the National Catholic Register that “anyone who has engaged in homosexual activity or has strong homosexual inclinations,” should not be admitted to a seminary. He said the restriction should even apply to men who have not been sexually active for a decade or more. The investigators will also be on the lookout for any faculty members who dissent from church teaching. The last such review began about 25 years ago and took six years to complete.

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