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Catholic priests to face psychological screening | World news | guardian.co.uk
New Catholic priests are to be psychologically screened as the Vatican increases its efforts to be more selective after a series of sex abuse scandals. The church has issued selection guidelines to help leaders remove priesthood candidates with "psychopathic disturbances". Monsignor Jean-Louis Brugues said the guidelines "became ever more urgent because of the sexual scandals".
Ireland may be running out of priests and nuns but if a young Mother Teresa tried to join the Catholic clergy today she would be sent packing for being psychologically unsuitable.
Catholic church: Decline in priest numbers exacerbated by psychological vetting | World news | The Guardian
Alta Jacko is the mother of eight children.
Efforts Rising to Ordain Women as Roman Catholic Priests - TIME
Catholic Culture : Dictionary : LAICIZATION
The act of reducing an ecclesiastical person or thing to a lay status. The turning over of a church building to a secular purpose; the removal by a civil power of ecclesiastical control in an institution where that control and influence should be operative. In the laicization of clerics, the Holy See, for extraordinary reasons and the greater good of the Church, may laicize a bishop, priest, or deacon.Millionaires and local activists have joined forces across Britain to fight proposals for scores of huge incinerators that have ignited a new planning row with the Government. The building of energy from waste (EfW) plants, some capable of burning up to 90 lorry loads of rubbish a day, has set councils against each other and drawn ministers into parish conflicts. Parents and pressure groups have allied themselves to, among others, a pop star and television presenter in the fight against the incinerators, which are designed to reduce the need for landfill but have been criticised for their “devastating” presence in local environments.
Catholic Church faces new crisis — Ireland is running out of priests -Times Online
Pope says condoms sometimes permissible to stop AIDS | Reuters
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS may be justified in certain cases, Pope Benedict says in a new book that could herald the start of sea change in the Vatican's attitude to condoms.Pope approves use of condoms in fight against Aids - Telegraph
"There may be justified individual cases, for example when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be ... a first bit of responsibility, to redevelop the understanding that not everything is permitted and that one may not do everything one wishes. "But it is not the proper way to deal with the horror of HIV infection."
