Ban on Gay Priests Approved (?)

The New York Times is reporting that the Church's rule prohibiting homosexuals from becoming priests will probably be published within the next six weeks, and that, according to an unidentified church official with "authoritative" knowledge of the rule, the question is not "if it will be published, but when":

[T]he church official who discussed the expected new rules said the document called for barring even celibate men who considered themselves homosexual because of what he contended were the specific temptations of seminaries.

"The difference is in the special atmosphere of the seminary," he said. "In the seminary, you are surrounded by males, not females."

Rob