Editing Diarmuid Martin (section)

===Gay priests===   
In 2005 Martin said that being gay should not prevent a man becoming a Catholic priest. He said: <ref>{{Cite web |title=Latin Mass Chaplaincy 10th Anniversary {{!}} Archdiocese of Dublin |url=https://dublindiocese.ie/latin-mass-chaplaincy-10th-anniversary/ |access-date=2023-07-05 |language=en-GB}}</ref> "You don't write off a candidate for the priesthood simply because he is a gay man." He discussed the admission of homosexuals to the priesthood in the context of the sexual abuse of minors by priests: "You have to say that horrendous damage was done to people. Then you need to take steps to ensure this will never happen again." He noted that "you cannot identify homosexuality with [[paedophilia]]" and that paedophilia is "not the result of homosexuality, nor is it a result of celibacy".<ref name="gaypriest">{{cite news| url=http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/1st-october-2005/42/priesthood-must-be-open-to-gays| work=The Tablet| title=Priesthood 'must be open to gays'| date=1 October 2005| page=42| access-date=8 June 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714190222/http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/1st-october-2005/42/priesthood-must-be-open-to-gays| archive-date=14 July 2014| url-status=dead}}</ref> His remarks preceded the [[Congregation for Catholic Education]]'s publication in November of a [[Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders|document on the same subject]] and later clarification that banned homosexuals who did not live chastely for at least three years.{{citation needed|date=June 2014}}