A rather simple explanation

The entire thing is very well written, but the final two paragraphs stand out as they talk about an issue that has been largely ignored in the coverage I've seen.

The more important reason concerns priestly identity. Priests serve as icons of Christ and pastors to their flocks. It's not for nothing that an old adage teaches, "priests and bishops take a thousand of their flock with them to heaven or hell." For far too long, priestly formation has been influenced by the prevailing cultural zeitgeist, which these days is reflective of self-assertion and narcissism in all matters, sexuality included.

In the wake of the church's latest instruction, many self-identified "gay priests" took to the airwaves to denounce it. Suffice it to say that a man who feels compelled to do such a thing on national television is putting the zeitgeist, not Christ, at the center of his identity. That is what the instruction sought to correct.

Read the complete article Vatican instruction on gays not new from The Enquirer.