Notre Dame report on seminary formation clouds gay priests in unjust suspicion

Notre Dame report on seminary formation clouds gay priests in unjust suspicion

Two proposals in the Notre Dame report on seminary formation will only increase fear, discourage true vocations, and cause great personal pain. They will also rob the church of many healthy and holy priests.

It's Past Time to Remove the Cloud of Suspicion Over Gay Priests

In a just-published op-ed for the National Catholic Reporter, New Ways Ministry Executive Director Francis DeBernardo responds to a new report of twelve proposals on seminary formation from the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute that DeBernardo reveals relies on flawed assumptions about gay clergy. “[The two proposals concerning gay priests] create a cloud of suspicion about gay men in the priesthood that will only increase fear, disco…