[DCPatriot]

I meant that since Catholic priests are not allowed to marry or have male-female relationships, fewer 'straight' men are drawn to the clergy.

When the pool of candidates is so small, the void is filled with men with abnormal sexual habits.

Perhaps, if priest were allowed to have a wife or girlfriend they wouldn't have such a 'problem'.

[Petronski]

When the pool of candidates is so small, the void is filled with men with abnormal sexual habits.

That's a filthy slur.

[Campion]

When the pool of candidates is so small, the void is filled with men with abnormal sexual habits.

Read Michael Rose's book. The "pool of candidates" is not small, it's really rather large. The problem is that too many of the normal ones were chased away for being nasty things like "heterosexual," "manly," and "Catholic".

And the priesthood is hardly "filled" with men with abnormal sexual habits, though there are some.

Perhaps, if priest were allowed to have a wife or girlfriend they wouldn't have such a 'problem'

Christian men aren't permitted to have sex with their girlfriends, either, last time I checked.

[dcnd9]

"I meant that since Catholic priests are not allowed to marry or have male-female relationships, fewer 'straight' men are drawn to the clergy."

Men are drawn to the clergy by the Grace of God. Catholic rules do not make them go astray. Evil does.

It's the Catholic Faith, the Eucharist, that keeps us practicing Catholics and faithful to the church albeit humanly flawed [just like our families!].

'The Imitation of Christ' by Thomas A.Kempis is awesome!

[RobbyS]

The problem was that when after Vatican II there was an emptying of the seminaries and an abandonment of the priesthood by many already ordained,
the bishops lowered their standards and took in men who earlier would have been rejected.