Why The Left Rails Against Priestly Celibacy

FrontPageMag.com ^ | April 10, 2002 | Chris Weinkopf

[sinkspur]

The "real" Catholic clergy -- priests, bishops, and the Pope -- is the target.

Deacons are "real" clergy, since they possess Holy Orders. But, you knew that.

I just don't get the hand-wringing over making celibacy optional.

It will take a generation or more before the Church lives down the negative PR from this pederast scandal; even a man called to the priesthood won't want to put up with young mothers shepherding their children away from him and the whispers behind his back when he's in public in a collar.

The only negative that's been raised so far that has any real credibility is the financial one, and I don't see that as serious at all; Catholics are notorious skinflints and will have to face up to providing something beyond poverty wages for those who serve them.

[William Terrell]

Unless from the WP or the LAT, please post the entire article. The links posted are temporary. If one were to pull this thread from the archives later, the posts to it would be meaningless because the original article would be unavailable.

If you don't care about the logic, just do it because Jim Robinson wants you to. In his comments on 11/27/1999 are these words:

Our chosen vehicle for dissent is to use the media's own words against them. We post their propaganda pieces and then our readers tear them apart and expose the lies and corruption within. It's also interesting to document how the lying liberal press covers events compared to other, less biased sources and it's even more interesting to see it weeks, months or years later when the truth is finally known.

This is why it is important to post articles in their entirety. Many of the media sites remove their articles within a few days of release and in some cases, even the next day. We've even caught the media changing stories by the hour to make them seem less damaging to the government or to certain protected politicians. The media is part of the enemy and thus cannot be trusted.

Do you get it? Or do you just not give a crap.