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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Celibacy: ..... Not a Doctrin

Now, I read in the Newspapers, the Catholic Church suggests that it will be possible to "discuss" Celibacy.
Well, isn't this precious...
What a crock:  It was, in any event, a paper prohibition, which few priests followed. In fact, studies suggest that approximately half of them  lead an active sexual life.
Many have a "house keeper" who does more than cooking and cleaning.
Some priests hereabouts make absolutely no secret of the female company they keep and the highest levels of the Catholic Church know it.
It is, as someone put it, better than abusing little boys and girls - another transgression well known right up to the Vatican - a transgression from the trauma of which the victim likely never fully recovers and the criminal perpetrator simply gets transferred to another parish, there to find new child victims.
The past Pope, Benedict XVI , in fact, issued an "apostolic letter" instructing the church Hierarchy not to report cases of child molestation to the authorities, but to deal with such issues (crimes would have been a better word) in private. Such cases, he ordered by decree, must be dealt with "subject to pontifical secret"...they must not be reported to the civilian authorities.
Let me come back, however, to this new wrinkle, whereby "Celibacy" may now be discussed.
Let us first define the word: 
"Celibacy" is, so Wikipedia tells us, "a state of being unmarried and sexually abstinent."
If "unmarried" means that they are not in liaison with a woman, such liaison having been officially blessed by the Catholic church, then I venture to say that 100% of Catholic Priests are indeed unmarried (although many share their life with a member of the opposite sex) but, so various researches show, some 50% are not sexually abstinent.
And quite frankly, one cannot blame them. They, having been imbued by Nature with the second strongest drive of any animal, including the human animal, the drive of procreation, must find it most difficult to fulfil this second requirement of "Celibacy".

So now the RC church suggests that, since Celibacy is not a Doctrine, it might be open for discussion.
I am waiting with baited breath for the start of such discussions....  
No, on second thought:

Bertstravels will not hold its breath.

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