[spectre]

We have lost way too many Priests because of the archaic practice of "celibacy."

The best source of endorsement comes from the man who would be canonized..and in whom we placed all our trust for wisdom and divine guidance..

"Pope John Paul II told the New York Times in July, 1993 that “Celibacy is not essential to the priesthood.”

And it isn't.

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[Desdemona]

We have lost way too many Priests because of the archaic practice of "celibacy."

If their sense of commitment is so shallow as to leave the priesthood to marry, what makes them good marriage material? I have a friend from grade school who's father left the priesthood to marry his mother, and then left his mother after 18 years. Both commitments are meant to be life long. And frankly, a lot of the men I know who left the seminary aren't really priest material and are massive libs and really would have made lousy priests. Some aren't, but that was figured out in the first two years - as it should be the way the system is set up.