I don't think it's anything new or different from the church's constant teaching, but it's new in the sense that the teaching has been widely disregarded in seminaries.

Turkey does not have a bridge through tradition with Christian Europe, and therefore it should be part of the Arabian bloc ... What has made Europe great has been Jesus Christ.

[Barring homosexuals from ordination] doesn't break any new ground or propose a new policy, ... That's the policy that's been in effect, in theory. It's just been ignored in many areas, particularly North America.