Chilean Cardinal Decries the Ordination of Gays
An influential cardinal who until recently held a top Vatican post has called the ordination of homosexuals “inadvisable,” “imprudent” and “very risky.”
The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline and the Discipline of the Sacraments published Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez’s viewpoint in its November-December bulletin Notitiae.
“The ordination to the diaconate or the priesthood of men who are homosexuals or have homosexual tendencies is absolutely inadvisable and imprudent, and from the pastoral point of view, very risky,” wrote the cardinal, who is from Chile.
“A person who is a homosexual or has homosexual tendencies is not, therefore, suitable to receive the sacrament of holy orders,” Estevez wrote.
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