At the height of the media horror over revelations of sexual abuse by some Roman Catholic priests, I had two comments at odds with the then current wisdom:

1. Pedophilia bad.  But something else was driving this story, that had nothing to do with moral outrage.  One hint was that many of  the same hedonists who spent eight years tap dancing around Herr Clinton's sexual depravities (as well as those of others in the entertainment industry),  seemed to lead the charge, making all the cleverest jokes about it. 
   
2. I argued that homosexual leaning priests, who remained celibate, were no different than heterosexual priests who remained celibate, as church canon decrees.
   

With Pope Benedict XVI about to issue a Vatican "instruction" forbidding even celibate homosexuals from entering seminary' I'm puzzled, like this guy:

 "No one believed they would do it, but it looks like they're going to," said the Rev. Thomas Reese, former editor of the Jesuit magazine America and now a visiting scholar at Santa Clara University. "This policy seems to be saying celibacy is not possible for gay men, therefore we cannot ordain them."
    What's different about the document, according a Sept. 19 Catholic World News (CWN) article, is the proviso forbidding even celibate homosexuals. It is unclear what will happen to homosexual men currently in seminary.  

It's now apparent, to me anyway, that the media fainting spells about pedophile priests were part of the left's declared war against Christianity in general, and the Catholic church in particular.  Pope Benedict elect  received the left's Newt Gingrich reception, complete with argumentum ad hominem, and false stories portraying him as a willing Nazi.  Benedict's assumptions about the nature of pedophile priests will fuel a new round of political activism by the religious left, but here's something  I did not know.

"In 1961, Pope John XXIII issued a binding directive to canon law that ruled that ordination "should be barred to those who are afflicted with evil tendencies to homosexuality or pederasty, since for them the common life and the priestly ministry would constitute serious dangers."

As long as Pope Benedict  is going to take all the heat for this, maybe I can talk him into issuing a Vatican "instruction"  to dust off some of the Inquisition's more interesting mechanical devices, and put them to use on some people whose identities I will provide. A Christian fatwa, so to speak (*sound of that shrill Muslim woman tongue yodel*). .