Spirituality and Sexuality

The New York Times is running a story about the Vatican sending agents to inspect American seminaries to find "homosexuals".

Vatican To Check U.S. Seminaries for Gay Presence

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

Published: September 15, 2005

Investigators appointed by the Vatican have been instructed to review each of the 229 Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States for "evidence of homosexuality" and for faculty members who dissent from church teaching, according to a document prepared to guide the process.

Increasingly, I feel the need to speak out against current events that appear to counter the spirit of equality and freedom of thought, especially if the events relate specifically to LGBT people.

It was not long ago, the early 1980s, when Catholic University purged itself of LGBT faculty. I wonder what our classmates down the road are thinking as they read this article, probably NOT news to them.