Oh my... another proclamation from the hardest working man in soul business...our newest Pope, saying that candidates for the seminary must be free of gay tendencies for three years... STOP!...Alright...O.K...we're getting to the point now where we've run the gamut of ridiculousness where the whole gay priest thing is concerned.

As a cradle Catholic who's having a whole lot of trouble with this institution lately, I'm still trying to figure out why my church needs to go from starting brush fire after brush fire to total self-immolation with the flick of a...proclamation. Not that sexually abusing children is a brush fire but there's been no evidence that this is linked at all to homosexuality.

If homosexuality is indeed against church law (especially for priests) then whoever chooses to break that law already has and will continue to do so until well, hell freezes over. But it's this three year thing that has me totally undone. Who's keeping track of this three year fast?...Two years, nine months....Wait! You've got three more months to go!...Please...

Say a kid wants to enter the seminary out of high school. I'm guessing he's about seventeen or eighteen years old. Well, according to the new "proclamation", he should not have acted on a gay tendency since he was fourteen or fifteen...Wow!... At that age I was barely able to act out  any tendency worse than overeating.

Say a young man of twenty four or twenty five wants to enter the seminary. He's gay and has a vocation to the priesthood. Whether he admits or not to having sexual relations in a given period of time isn't going to stop him from seeking priesthood today any more than it would have a year ago. I mean this is just common sense.

Is this spiral of stupidity meant to confuse and confound the many of us that yearn for the Church to come up with some tangible answers to it's problems...or something else? Whatever's going on, please give us something...anything that makes sense.

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