New Guidelines For Priests

VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican has issued new psychological
screening guidelines for seminarians - the latest effort by the
Roman Catholic Church to be more selective about its priesthood
candidates following a series of pedophile scandals.
The church says it issued the new guidelines to help church
leaders weed out candidates with "psychopathic disturbances."
The guidelines issued Thursday say problems like "confused or
not yet well-defined" sexual identities need to be addressed.
The Church is struggling to provide enough priests for parishes
in many parts of the West because of waning vocations. But Pope
Benedict XVI has said it is more important to have good priests
than a greater number of priests.

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