VATICAN CITY Oct 7, 2005 — A Vatican document expected to be made public soon stops short of a sweeping ban on homosexuals entering the priesthood, allowing those who have lived chastely for three years to be candidates for the clergy, a senior Vatican official said Friday.

The document, in the works for at least three years, updates Vatican policy, which had held that gays or men with homosexual tendencies should not be ordained, regardless of whether they can remain celibate.

The new document permits candidates who have lived a chaste life for at least three years before their admission to a seminary, said the senior official, who requested anonymity because the document has not yet been released.

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This is a really good deal. I think you have to wait *five* years after molesting a child.

I wonder if there are any future gay priests looking at this kinda like a drug test; you stop smoking pot for a few weeks so you can past the test and get the job, but you light up on your way home from your first day.