This has no basis in the Bible. Celibacy has long since outlived its land-controlling usefulness for the Vatican. Ditch it now, so the Catholic Chuch can weed out the sodomites, grow stronger and help push back Satanic Islam worldwide.
33 posted on 10/22/2005 9:48:25 PM PDT by montag813
The newly ordained have the task and challenge to learn how to love the Church with an undivided and generous heart. Pastores Dabo Vobis, no. 29, says, "The Church, as the Spouse of Jesus Christ, wishes to be loved by the priest in the total and exclusive manner in which Jesus Christ her Head and Spouse loved her. Priestly celibacy, then, is the gift of self in and with Christ to his Church and expresses the priest's service to the Church in and with the Lord." The purity, detachment, direction of one's sexuality, and generosity that this love requires are learned by the newly ordained as they serve the people of God. The task and the challenge is, in effect, to learn the integrating path of pastoral charity in its very practice (cf. PDV, no. 23). The Basic Plan for the Ongoing Formation of Priests, A Statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops
35 posted on 10/22/2005 11:27:03 PM PDT by gpapa
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