For the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, 125 of its representatives in Germany made a collective coming out, publicly declaring their homosexuality. According to the German publication Die Welt, among those who declared non-traditional sexual orientation, there are not only priests, but also pastors, leaders of Catholic communities, teachers and teachers of religious schools, employees and employees of the church administration.
On Monday, they announced the creation of a social movement "OutInChurch", whose members insist on changing the church's labor laws so that sexual orientation and gender identity cannot be the basis for dismissal. In addition, they demand that statements about gender and sexuality be removed from church teaching. Members of the movement say they should no longer be denied access to Catholic sacraments and rites.
Catholic priests admit in conversations with a correspondent that the causes of this event are church personnel policy, the sexual revolution, and the fact that today's young priests are not ready to live apart from their families. Indeed, judging by the interview of the former Polish priest Lukasz Kahnovich to Newsweek magazine, the shortage of personnel in the Catholic Church makes the hierarchs turn a blind eye to the non-traditional orientation of future seminarians.
This problem is well known in the Vatican. In 2018, Spanish hieromonk Fernando Prado published the book The Power of Vocation, based on a four-hour interview with Pope Francis on the priesthood. In it, the po.jpg spoke directly about his concern about homosexuality among priests and emphasized that people of non-traditional orientation should not be admitted to seminaries and monastic orders. The Catholic Church believes that homosexuality is contrary to the natural order of things established by God.
True, you can close your eyes to the sins of mere mortals. Pope Francis is known to have said: "If a person is gay and has good will and aspires to God, who am I to judge him?" But this clearly does not apply to the ministers of the church, and if such actions as "OutInChurch" become massive, it will become impossible to ignore them. Therefore, the Vatican will finally have to decide what to do next: take a decisive position and remove all priests who have declared their homosexuality, or reconcile.
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