A New Inquisition: Neither Welcome Nor Needed
A Protestant’s response to the Vatican plan for a “visitation” of all Roman Catholic seminaries in the US. The working document, “Instrumentum Laboris,” including questions to be asked of all administrators, teachers and students at the seminaries is disturbing, not simply because of its negative impact upon qualified candidates for the priesthood who happen to be gay, but for its repressive and defensive view of theological education in general. If the Devil were to invent a plan for the continuing decline and ultimate death of the Church of Jesus Christ, he could not do better than this. Discuss it here.
