Posted on 09/28/2007 11:34:11 AM PDT by VidMihi
I can safely assume that 99% of the priests who leave the clerical system are straight men who are not only looking for the refreshing waters of the feminine in their lives, but are also unconsciously fleeing the bedrock homosexual clerical lifestyle - homosexual in the strictest sense of the word. All men - no women. Homosexual also as a descriptor of the primary sexual activity that takes place in the professed sexless culture of the priesthood.
I didn't decide that celibacy was not for me 25 years ago. I decided that the all-pervasive gay lifestyle of the priesthood was not for me. The men who were in positions of authority and making decisions about my life were gay and they enjoyed their own intimacies. It took me a while to figure it out, but I had unknowingly met many of their lovers whom they introduced as friends or relatives when visiting. I was tired of being the straight celibate chump supporting and filling in for the men who were busy loving other men, and I wasn't going to lead a double life like some of the straight guys were doing in that permissive atmosphere, so I left.
I didn't desert or abandon anything but the sexual corruption of the priesthood that is so plainly visible to us today.
Many of our CITI members have received the warm pat on the head from their local bishop telling them to "continue their good ministry". So what? What a patronizing insult. A nice little containment move to keep the little married priest in his box while they enjoy all the resources for their institutional ministry and everything else that they have amassed for themselves. We work full time jobs and do ministry in addition to that work. They have one job, and plenty of money and opportunities to enjoy all that they have promised to eschew for the sake of the Kingdom. …….
They say they are dedicated to the RC tradition of celibacy. I believe they are dedicated to homosexuality with celibacy being their ever thinning veil.
They don't want us and our wives back in the system discovering and challenging their special sexual and financial arrangements.
I'm not bitter. I love where I am at and what I am doing. Roman Catholic spirituality trumps Roman Catholic institutionalism every day. I'm being the best RC priest I can be and most of the 70% of Catholics who have given up on the institution actually like me and value the priestly competencies I offer.
The RC priesthood is a gay profession. They are quite happy just the way things are. They own everything - legally. ……We will only be reinstated in parishes when the gay men who run the church allow us back in.
You left the priesthood because you could not live the selfless life that you had professed. Your failure to keep your vows is nothing to be proud of.
Calling priests gay and throwing around the homo word is an effective way to justify your actions. Truth be told, priests spend most of their time with their parishioners, not other priests. And that is a life full of women. Most of the people priests work with by far are women. So, there is no absence of the feminine in priests lives.
Or, perhaps you left for sex. Okay, so you “needed” to leave for your gratification. I understand that. But didnt you understand that when you entered the seminary? Didnt you understand that when you took your vows?
Married life is not perfect. And we should understand that it will be difficult at times and learn how to work through the tough times, to forgive, to start over, to fall in love again. Same thing with the priesthood.
The witness of your failure as a priest in no way undermines the priesthood but it is a testimony to you inability to make and keep a commitment.
I pray you are at least more successful in your marriage and dont walk out on your wife and you did on Christ’s ministry and his Church.
“I didn’t decide that celibacy was not for me 25 years ago ... I wasn’t going to lead a double life like some of the straight guys were doing in that permissive atmosphere, so I left”
So, which was it?
Anyone associated with rentapriest is a bad egg.
That said many leave because they were improperly formed (such as entering the Seminary without the maturity to understand what they were undertaking) or for, perhaps other reasonable reasons.
Those men have all ceased to function as Priest and many give fine service to the Church still.
We should never lump the “rent a Priest” crowd together with the good men who have, unfortunately, left for legitimate reasons.
Let me pose a question to you Mr. married priest who needed the fulfillment of the marital state to such a degree that he saw fit to abandon his pledge to sacrifice his life for his bride the Church: Suppose, just suppose, that the day after you married your wife, she slipped into a coma from which she would never emerge. Would you abandon her because you were no longer able to access the loved you longed for? What, Father, you seemed to have missed is that as followers of Christ we are called to the sacrificial life - to die to ourselves in the name of love. This means unconditionally. Life as a Christian means pursuing happiness not through going after those things which we think are going to make us happy but understanding that true happiness and joy only comes with death to self - whether that death to self is for the sake of the Church or that of a woman (or man). The essential mistake is that the pursuit of self interest, self-gratification, self-fulfillment leads to just the opposite.
Actually the percentage of Catholic priests who are gay is not as high as the percentage in many “mainstream” church seminaries.
Andrew Greeley has the statistics, using his “sociology” hat. The problem is that the gays got into the bureaucracy and covered up a lot of the sins of their friends in some dioceses. I think the number he quotes is 20 percent, of whom 5 percent are active, but I am too tired to look it up...
But some “mainstream” churches have 40 to 50 percent of gays in their seminaries...
This one belongs in the compost heap.
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