Further to the Tablet

The Instruction's numerous ambiguities that might appear to be intentional are indeed important, as the essay in yesterday's TRN brought to light from a different angle.  What I am particularly grateful for in the Tablet's analysis is the emphasis on the difference between culpability and suitability for an office/ministry. The Instruction, consistently with the Church's other teaching documents, in no way imputes to individuals culpability based on "deep-seated homosexual tendencies" as such, and who would dispute the correctness of the Instruction's insistence that the Church is charged with ordaining to the priesthood only those who can faithfully represent the fullness of the faith?  This insistence presupposes, of course, that all inheritors of original sin sometimes have desires/tendencies that incline them (us) in wrong directions; not surprisingly, the Instruction does not court heresy.