This wise Church policy must be understood primarily through theology and only secondarily through psychology. Psychology can help understand a seminarian and the Church's policy to not accept men with deep-seated homosexual tendenices into the seminary, but, in the end, it is a theological discernment.
This wise Church policy must be understood primarily through theology and only secondarily through psychology. Psychology can help understand a seminarian and the Church's policy to not accept men with deep-seated homosexual tendenices into the seminary, but, in the end, it is a theological discernment.
The discernment requires an understanding of the distinctions between celibacy, chastity, and, continence, as well as the important description of homosexuality being a disorder of the natural inclination to procreate and propogate the species.
On a practical level, it is clear that when a local church/seminary follows the policy, the number of seminarians increase. When the local church/seminary doesn't, their numbers drop.
This wise Church policy must be understood primarily through theology and only secondarily through psychology. Psychology can help understand a seminarian and the Church's policy to not accept men with deep-seated homosexual tendenices into the seminary, but, in the end, it is a theological discernment.
The discernment requires an understanding of the distinctions between celibacy, chastity, and, continence, as well as the important description of homosexuality being a disorder of the natural inclination to procreate and propogate the species.
On a practical level, it is clear that when a local church/seminary follows the policy, the number of seminarians increase. When the local church/seminary doesn't, their numbers drop.