A leading English seminary has rejected allegations that it failed to address a “gay subculture”.
Last week, Fr David Marsden, a former formation tutor at St Maty’s College, Oscott, wrote an open letter to the Bishops of England, Wales and Scotland, in which he claimed that he had been “fired from the college for striving to uphold the Church's teaching on homosexuality”.
Vatican directives, most recently in 2005, have said that the Church “cannot admit to the seminary or to holy orders those who practise homosexuality, present deep-seated homosexual tendencies or support the so-called ‘gay culture’.”
