from post 64
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This how so many pedophiles got in. Most of them were horrified at their own desires and so like the gays before them ran to the shelter of celibacy. They should have been screened out, but the Seminary administrators were simply too desperate for bodies. Likewise homosexuals were permitted to be a lot more open, and even active about their sexuality because they were needed so desperately.
It is my opinion that this will not stop until we take a real serious look at lifting the celibacy requirement altogether. There already are married priests in the Roman Catholic rite, and the sky has not fallen. If we don’;t want Benedict “Glory of the Olives” to be the 2nd to last Pope as St Malachy reported prophesied, we need to take a very serious look at re-opening vocations to married men again.
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My comment was, “Pedophiles are not halped by marriage. Neither are homosexuals. Celibacy is not the problem.”
Go read his post again and you will see that he does a good job of describing the history of the declining priest pool, and how those shortfalls were filled by homosexuals and deviants, and that there is no obvious solution to changing what has become of the applicant pool.
He is not proposing allowing married priests so that the deviants would marry and become healed, he is suggesting allowing married men into the priesthood to replace them, and to create again, a vast pool of normal priest applicants.