[little jeremiah]

Some men have the fortitude or the self-sacrifice to give up marriage for serving God. Not many, but some. And what about men who can’t find a wife? Or whose wives cannot perform their marital function due to health problems? There are many situations where human beings need to restrain the sexual urge. Come on, we’re not animals. We have will power. And there are ways to tame the sexual impulse, or inflame it.

[gusty]

Lets be honest. The celibate priesthood was created hundreds of years after the founding of the Catholic Church for economic and political reasons. The Church did not want Church land to end up in private family hands. Like everything else in Medieval Europe, the priesthood would become a hereditary post. Politically the Church was the only institution that provided social mobility at the time. It was a way to hold some hope to the peasant masses. If it did become closed, than peasants would have nothing to lose in turning the whole society upside down.