Bishop Sartain Removes Homosexual Priest from Ministry

Bishop Removes Catholic Pastor for Homosexual Relationship

I posted a different article on this last May when it happened, but it's worth posting again. I find it encouraging that at least one bishop is taking seriously the problem of immoral homosexual adult relationships. Homosexuality in the priesthood is a serious problem. The homosexual worldview is disordered and skewed. Even if a priest isn't engaging in sex, he is in a constant environment of temptation because he is living intimately with the sex to which he is attracted. It is like a heterosexual priest living and spending all his time with women. Wouldn't more than a few eyebrows be raised?

Homosexual priests live a lie. Part of the virtue of a priest is that he gives up marriage and family to devote himself wholeheartedly in service to the family of God. But the homosexual doesn't give up anything. He enters the environment that appeals to him surrounded by other men. Thank God at least one bishop recognized that a priest engaging in homosexual sex cannot be allowed to remain in ministry. May many of his brother bishops imitate him. And may the Church recognize the need for a canon law that forbids homosexuals in the priesthood. Those already ordained should be banned from any position of authority.