That said, the homosexual issue is separate.
These priests don't go after altar boys because they can't get married.
Priests have plenty of opportunity for female companionship but the go after young boys because they are homosexuals.
I disagree. The Russian Orthodox Church (Eastern Catholic) does not have this problem. Priests can marry!
>> I agree with letting priests marry and allowing already married men become priests.
The church has never let men who have already been ordained get married. That’s not gonna happen.
But it could ordain men who are already married, and in fact, already does, sometimes. I belong to a parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, and our pastor is married. He was an Episcopalian priest, and already married when he converted to Catholicism. Five years later he was ordained a Catholic priest. He’s great.
However, witnessing the married Catholic priesthood up close for over five years now, I have to say I’m not a big fan of it. Our pastor and his wife make it work in their case, but I see the strain. I don’t think there are many couples who could make it work.
Absolutely correct. You look at all these indictments handed out in Pennsylvania alone and there is exactly one case of a priest diddling a young lady.
This is not a random chance happening when 95% to 98% of the general population is heterosexually inclined. It is about the 2% to 5% of the population targeting a profession because it gives them access.
BTW, I happen to believe that 2%, maybe even less, is closer to the truth.