Posted on 03/04/2024 7:19:42 AM PST by ebb tide
Ping
By abolishing mandatory celibacy, decent, rational priests will be eventually able to rid the clergy of perverted homosexuals. Disbanding the homosexual dominated Jesuit order would also do the Church much good.
Many of the Eastern Catholic Churches, which are in full communion with the Pope, allow married men to be priests.
Horse-hockey.
30 years ago, I asked the priest who did our marriage preparation about this. He said that, with all he does as a priest, it would be hard to give time to a wife and children. It would also be harder on a parish’s finances to pay a priest enough to support them. A Franciscan friend once remarked that it wouldn’t be against Church doctrine to change this, and there have been exceptions, such as Anglican priests who convert. Still I think that it’s wise as a general rule.
Sorry but it is best to recognize how the homosexual permetation of the Catholic clergy and hierarchy has severely weakened the moral credibility of the Church and has alienated many of the once faithful. Its not a good situation. Heterosexual behavior is inherent in normal men. Mandatory celibacy keeps them out of the priesthood and is a perfect guise for perverts.
Horse-hockey
You are spot on.
The Apostle Paul recognized this problem when he wrote:
But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. 1 Cor. 7:9 NIV
“God made them man and woman, and trying to fudge the lines is what is destroying our culture right now.”
Sexual determination is exactly what you said. If you substitute being taught different and fudge the lines you have the exact same meaning. But fudging the lines by being taught different is exactly what I said. So how is what you said and what I said a lie?
wy69
I am not sure how hard this is, but if there was no teaching about sexuality at all, girls would still be girls and doing girl things, and boys would still be boys and doing boy things. The very idea of teaching sexuality to young children is grooming.
We didn’t play any of those games in my house, no tv and very few movies. The boys and girls played the same for a few years, but at a certain point the girls liked one thing and the boys liked other things. Heterosexual behaviour is the “CREATED” norm and the other stuff is taught.
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