Pro-gay Jesuit Klaus Mertes was allowed to publish a propaganda article promoting homosexual priests and their [his?] “manner of affection” on the German bishops' katholisch.de (December 4).

The article contains - if true - an interesting story about the late neoconservative Dubia Cardinal Joachim Meisner.

Meisner once told a group of bishops: “I have never ordained a single homosexual seminarian.”

Among the group was Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky who succeeded Meisner as Berlin archbishop. He replied, "Then, could you please explain to me why I have so many homosexual priests in my diocese?”

Picture: Joachim Meisner, © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk, CC BY-SA, #newsWaeinmvwsd