Robert Silva Quotations

If that's going to be the policy of the church as the church seeks to be its best self, then I'm going to accept what the church tells me, ... On the other hand, I would have an awful lot of compassion for men who are holy, celibate, chaste and who are homosexual and have served the church well.

I'm hearing that some men will choose to leave, because if they don't, it would be like living a lie,

We need not to focus on specific homosexuality, but we need to focus on the integration of our own human sexuality and the ability to live a deeply committed virginal life that is fully and wholly sexual,

What is the Church telling me as a human being when it questions my very identity? I've lived a celibate life for this many years.