The only point missing that I can think of the eschatological witness of celibacy, which is an important reason for its preservation. And, the fact that through the centuries the vast majority of Catholic religious have been faithful to their vows must truly frost the Left, which can't abide sexual continence. It seems to spend a great deal of its time trying to convince all and sundry that personal sanctity is a hopeless and foolhardy pursuit. Naturally it would, for those who are enslaved by their passions are more easily controlled.
I would say further that the pastoral clergy could do with more monastic discipline rather than less. You just know that these scandalous priests could not have been faithful in saying their Office, for example. It is impossible to maintain an active prayer life and indulge in such heinous sins at the same time.
Being in love does monopolize a person.
Got a package from South Bend today. Started E. Michael Jones's "Libido Domini ... Sexual Liberation and Political Control" at the bus stop after Mass. Intense.
But Mr. B needs a walk. More later.
I've been turning this over in my head for some time now. There's no marriage in heaven, while priesthood is forever. Why?
Perhaps the purely temporal nature of marriage is a theological clue. I don't have an answer just yet, but I wonder if it has something to do with the husband-headed family as micro-ekklesia.
What the Church needs most of all just now is mystics.
But this is not the case. If anything, there's the orthodox. Editors Kushiner and Reardon are at All Saints Antiochian Orthodox in Chicago.