Gay people should not join Catholic clergy, Pope Francis says.

Pope Francis says the issue of homosexuality should be adequately discerned from the beginning with would-be priests. (Photograph: Max Rossi/Reuters)

Pope Francis is “concerned” about what he describes as the “serious issue” of homosexuality, saying in an interview published on Saturday that being gay is a “fashion” to which the clergy is susceptible.

“The issue of homosexuality is a very…