RNS GAYS SEMINARY

(RNS4-NOV29) When Joe Yokum considered a call to the Catholic priesthood five years ago, the
first thing he said a seminary official asked him was, ” `Do you consider yourself to be a
homosexual man?’ ” Yokum, now 27 and a third-year seminarian at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary
hin Emmitsburg, Md. See RNS-GAYS-SEMINARY, transmitted Nov. 29, 2005. Religion News
Service photo by Dennis Drenner.