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Kersten states that "the church has viewed celibacy as important to priesthood for at least 1,000 years." Sure, and lying about it has been around all that time too. Have you ever read Chaucer? Do you know about Martin Luther?

As a matter of fact we do know about Luther. We also know about Melchisedech. Elias, John the Baptist, Paul, Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary and many others.

Her commentary strikes me as being a lot like the summer of love, when we wore flowers and tossed balloons and dope was destroying minds all around us, but we chanted and danced and pretended that everything was groovy . . . .

Sounds like Nancy did more than dope.

As a matter of fact we do know about Luther. We also know about Melchisedech. Elias, John the Baptist, Paul, Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary and many others.

Certainly there is no biblical requirement for priests to be celibate. Saint Peter was married.

But I'm not Catholic so I don't really care if they want to have celibacy as a requirement.

Of course the attack is not really on celibacy. That's just phase 1. Most of these bad priests (and in spite of the media hysteria, there haven't been all that many)have been homosexual. If the Catholic Church removes the celibacy requirements, the next step will be to say that the Church should allow priests to enter into homosexual "marriages".