” Nothing will work until the RCC scraps once and for all the celibacy rule for priests. The rule is the main reason the clergy is overrun with homosexuals and all the spiritual disease they bring to the Church.” -——
The condition of celibacy for the Catholic priesthood since the time of the Apostles was encouraged by Jesus, and in obedience to Christ Jesus the condition has enjoyed no debilitating effect on the Roman Church, at least that has been even sparsely documented.
In my opinion this reasoning is a modern canard used for venting the misplaced rage about the real cause(s) of the overall sad condition of the Catholic Church in the West.
This canard is also useful to enemies of the Church who openly wish to mess with the signs and identity of the Catholic Church— to make Holy Mother Church appear increasingly more Protestant. After all, one-size-fits-all is so very ecumenical looking, and oozes “unity”.
One might say the Church becomes more pedestrian, ordinary, so we can kill dead that idea of being evermore a
“peculiar people” as scripture identifies the people of God.
No, celibacy is not the problem. Looking and becoming more like the world is the problem, against which Jesus admonished His people.
Millions of Eastern Rite Catholics, not to mention of Orthodox Christian brothers and sisters, would no doubt take exception to your conflating married clergy and being "Protestant.
You’ve made some excellent points. I’ll mangle this reference, but if I recall it correctly, we are “of” this world but are not to be “in” it. The problems the RCC faces today are, unfortunately, largely due to its failure to attack secular humanism at its root.
What you’ve run into here is something I’ve only recently begun to understand and that is Nihilism. There are so many anymore that believe in nothing and are offended that some believe in something, particularly in something beyond purely human experience and understanding. Not only do they believe in nothing, they are intent on insuring that any professions of belief are doggedly attacked and they are intent on insuring that just like them, no one believes in anything whatsoever.
Fight on, but the “resistance” is becoming ever more intense and radicalized.