Jeanie Hannaman

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - That’s the bill that has come due, after decades in which Church leaders put public appearances and clerical solidarity above the interests of the Catholic faith and the Catholic faithful... The sex-abuse scandal was not—is not—a crisis imposed on the Catholic Church, brought on by external forces. It is a self-inflicted wound, caused by bishops and pastors who had been trained to give top priority to the temporal needs of the Church rather than the supernatural.

By Janet E. Smith, Crisis Magazine - Recently, the Italian bishops’ Episcopal Commission for the Clergy and Consecrated Life released “Orientations and Norms for Seminaries” a document that, among many other matters, addresses the seminary formation of men who experience same-sex attraction. The pertinent paragraph, 199, cites “The Gift of a Priestly Vocation” (hereafter “The Gift”), a 2016 Vatican document (which, in turn, is citing “Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with Regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders”