[NYer]

The Notes section of this article is well referenced and also worth reading.

[Salvation]

BTTT for later.

[LiteKeeper]

Priestly celibacy violates Scripture:

Genesis 1:27 says we are to be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth.

1 Timothy 3 and Titus 2 say that the pastor/overseer/bishop is to be the husband of one wife, and is to rule his own household well that he may oversee the flock

There is no Scriptural justification for celibacy...Tradition cannot contradict Scripture.

[Maeve]

My only regret about this article is that the author is a Jesuit. I just can't trust a Jesuit any more and believe firmly the Society should be crushed and suppressed.

[VidMihi]

Jesuits are and should be celibate. After all they take the vow as a good in and of itself. But what may be good for them as religious does not apply of necessity to the secular priest for whom celibacy is a prerequisite for ordination - not by necessity a good or evil. Let the religious speak for themselves - but don't try to impose the vows of their religious life on all priests.