Seminary doors closed to ‘real’ homosexuals

In the new language of the Vatican, homosexuality is a “tendency.” The church doesn’t define tendency, nor does it say whether such a tendency is biological. Voluntary or not, it marks a man permanently. Ironically, the only exemptions are offered to men who were not “real” homosexuals but “transitory” ones. An opinion column by Ellen Goodman as published in the Dec. 3 edition of the Quad-City Times.