“Pope says gay priests must be ‘impeccably responsible’” is the headline in our correspondent Christopher Lamb’s news report from Rome this week.
Well, sure - but at a time when, as Pope Francis is well aware, there are voices trying to pin responsibility for the sexual abuse crisis on gays in the priesthood, it would have been wiser to point out that all priests, gay or straight, are called to chastity.
Shelagh Fogarty writes that callers to her radio show were adamant that if the Church had a “no gays in the priesthood” rule it would be simple homophobia.
One might well add if there were 'no gays in the priesthood' it would indeed be a 'skeleton service'.
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