The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne has confirmed that it will be following Vatican recommendations to test would-be priests to ensure they’re not gay. Archdiocese of Melbourne spokesperson James O’Farrell confirmed that the Corpus Christi Catholic Seminary in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton had started ‘testing’ potential priests for homosexuality, but would not reveal what the tests involve. The testing follows recommendations from a Vatican committee which declared that even celibate gay men should be banned from the priesthood because homosexuality is ‘‘a type of deviation’’. …

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