Homosexuality: Is the Catholic Church Guilty of Discrimination?

Abstract

The Holy See's new instruction on homosexuality and the priesthood has been sensationalized in some places in the media as if it represented some kind of radical new departure for the Catholic Church. However, only someone ignorant of the Church's constant teaching against homosexual acts—or persuaded that this teaching could somehow be changed in accordance with modern ideas—could ever have seriously imagined that the new instruction would turn out to be anything other than a solemn reiteration of the Church's traditional teaching and practice with regard to homosexuality.