Transsexual women are presenting themselves as men to infiltrate Catholic seminaries, a US bishop has said.
Bishops should now order physical examinations or DNA tests for candidates for the priesthood, Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee advised members of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in a memo.
He said that on more than one occasion women who have undergone sex changes have applied to the priesthood and have been accepted into seminary.
“Recently, the Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance was made aware of instances where it had been discovered that a woman living under a transgendered identity had been unknowingly admitted to the seminary or to a house of formation of an institute of consecrated life,” said Archbishop Listecki in his memo.
