In his recently concluded trip to Brazil, Pope Francis said he won't judge priests for their sexual orientation.Paul Griffiths Warren Professor of Catholic Theology at the Duke Divinity Schoolpgriffit@gmail.com http://divinity.duke.edu/academics/faculty/paul-griffiths Griffiths' areas of interest and topics of publication include post-1950 Catholic philosophical theology and the philosophical and political questions arising from religious diversity. He recently wrote an op-ed that previewed the pope's visit to Brazil -- http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/2013/07/popes_trip_to_brazil_could_spa... Quotes: "What the pope said perhaps signals a return to an earlier church position, in which the question isn't so much about orientation as about action. On this view, it's what you do that counts, and so a chaste gay priest is no different from a chaste straight priest. "I don't think that what was said signals any change in the view that homosexual acts are sinful/disordered. It does signal, though, a very different rhetoric and style on the question than Benedict's or John Paul's. I should think that Francis has other priorities in his papacy than the gay question." _ _ _ _ Duke experts on a variety of other topics can be found at http://newsoffice.duke.edu/resources-media/faculty-experts.
