[cgk]

I go back and forth on this issue. The offenders took vows of celibacy, and have broken them. They knew from before Day 1, that it was a requirement for the service. Would not ending celibacy for priests be akin to rewarding the offenders? Making them the new "revolutionaries" who got the church out of its "archaic" views? I fear that.

On the other hand, would ending celibacy end this abuse of children and minors? Celibacy does not specify age, only ALL sex, regardless. Would a man who is married, and a priest, have an aversion to molesting a child in his "care" if he already had an attraction to the innocent, and voiceless?

Mrs Kus

[johnny7]

So true... in fact many homosexuals are married men.

Pedophiles are diseased human beings that must be removed from society.

Marriage will not stop a pedophile from molesting children.

The idea that marriage is a cure for priests who molest children is an example of how problems are addressed today.

A_s-backwards

[Antoninus]

Would not ending celibacy for priests be akin to rewarding the offenders?

Yes.