Visitation will stomp dissent as well as gays

In the wake of the news that the Vatican will bar gay priests, bishopaccountability.org has published the official instructions to the visitation teams who will examine students and schools. It's available here, but if you're not up to Catholic legalese at the moment, check out their website and their critique, quoted below:

• Sexual Abuse Ignored - The sexual abuse crisis, which is the reason for the seminary visitations, is nowhere mentioned in the document.
  
• Homosexuality Scrutinized - The reference to homosexuality (para. B.4.3), which has prompted so much comment, is not the only allusion in the document to this issue (see, for example, the mention of “particular friendships” in para. B.6.10 and the reference to the Vatican’s Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons in para. B.7.4).
  
• Elimination of Dissent Emphasized - The issues of proper supervision and “dissent” (e.g., para. B.2.7) are more prominent than homosexuality in the guide. For example, the “Visitors” to each seminary are to check that moral instruction is based on certain Vatican texts, including the birth-control encyclical Humanae vitae (see para. B.7.4).
  
• Secrecy Enforced - The seminary Visitors (many of whom appear to be American bishops, some with a bad track record during the crisis) are bound by pontifical secret (para. A.2.9). --www.bishopaccountability.org

I do not intend ever to let this blog become a one-issue forum, but you have to understand that 90% of my friends are either gay or seminary students. I tremble to see what the fallout of this papal decision will be for the people and the church I love.