Two seminarians at the Irish College in Rome have been ordered back home to Ireland after being found in bed together, the Irish Times reports.

Before they were sent packing by the rector, both Catholic priests-in-training had reportedly been drinking at an earlier event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul V1’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, which banned artificial contraception.

It remains unclear whether the seminarians will be allowed to resume their studies for the priesthood. When asked about the incident, a spokesman for Catholic bishops said it was “not appropriate to comment about individuals.”

Archbishop of Dublin Dr. Diarmuid Martin previously expressed his intention to send aspiring Irish priests to Rome's Irish College because it offered “a good grounding” in the Catholic faith.

Martin publicly criticized Ireland's national seminary, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, because of what he viewed there as "an atmosphere of strange goings-on."

His critical remarks followed anonymous allegations that a group of seminarians at St. Patrick's were using Grindr and had been sexually involved with priests in the Dublin archdiocese.

Interestingly enough, the three students expelled from St. Patrick’s for allegedly using Grindr were actually transferred to the Irish College in Rome.

Commenting on the rumored “active gay subculture” at St. Patrick's in 2016, Father Brendan Hoban said that in seminaries “you are always going to have a mixture of gay and heterosexual candidates, that has always been the case, and there will be—from time to time, incidents that people would prefer didn’t happen. But they do happen, human nature being what it is.”