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✣ Pope addresses homosexuality among priests

What happened?

Pope Francis said the issue of homosexuality among candidates for the priesthood was “very serious”, that it must be “adequately discerned from the
beginning” and that “we have to be exacting”.

The remarks were made in a book-length interview, entitled The Strength of a Vocation, excerpts of which were published by Spain’s Religión Digital. “In our societies it even seems that homosexuality is fashionable,” the Pope said, “and that mentality … also influences the life of the Church.”