The New York Times reports that U.S. bishops have voted to accept new guidelines for how clergy members should deal with homosexual church members:

The guidelines welcome gay people, but they also affirm church teachings that “homosexual inclinations” are inherently disordered. While having such inclinations is not sinful, gay sexual activity is, according to the core teachings.

This is being taken as a traditional stance, and in some ways it is. But Christianity often teaches that thinking about someting sinful is itself sinful -- e.g., coveting your neighbor's wife. The idea that homosexual inclinations are, in themselves, not sinful seems like progress. My take is that the Catholic church is making a very slow three-point turn, and right now they're at that awkward point where they're crosswise to traffic with their front wheels against the curb.