Forgive me, but the good Cardinal preaching celibacy while the church is found to be repeatedly covering up the sexual exploits of the clergy is just a tad...ridiculous. The Cardinal and the church need to clean up the log in their eye before they go preaching about the speck in anyone elses.
Sounds nice in principle.
In practice, however, the clerical celibacy doctrine has resulted in a creation of a safe haven for repressed homosexual pederasts, and a serious black eye to an organization that has done much more good in the world than it gets credit for.
Any reasonable person accepts the reality that the vast majority of priests are honorable men that take their vows and their calling seriously, but the small minority of perverts that hide behind the collar have done serious damage to the brand. If the choice is between ending the celibacy doctrine or allowing the Church to become marginalized due to its bad actors, I would hope common sense would prevail and priests would be allowed to marry, as they were in the Church's first millenium.
This is quite correct. Poverty, chastity, and obedience are to be observed, in different ways, by Christians in every state of life. There is a form of chastity appropriate to married people, and another that is appropriate to unmarried people.
Extolling the virtues of real losers. Poverty because
you’re too damn lazy. Celibacy because you’re not
acceptable to the opposite sex. Obedience because
you lack vision and leadership skills.
Too bad that old monk got distracted and forgot
to use the spelling checker. Celibate and celebrate
are very different outcomes.