SSA & the Seminary

Homosexuality and the Catholic seminary is a hot-button topic, but one that needs to be discussed in today's society (and, I would venture to say, in all societies, in all ages, as Ecclesiastes gets it right - "there is nothing new under the sun", particularly when it comes to sin and disordered tendencies, we've all got concupiscence thanks to our first parents, after all.

I bring this up because today I spotted a spot-on post on Jimmy Akin's blog, with a testimony and plea for help in discerning a vocation from a person who does have experience with SSA - and he really, truly, wants to discern WITH God and the Church, not FOR God and the Church. It is heartwarming and inspiring, and we really must pray for this young man. But first, before you can love someone, you must come to knowledge of them (as Aquinas so soundly observed!), and so I ask that you now click over and read his story and the worthy commentary that follows it.