Where did it mention these priest wanted sex with their girlfriends? I thought this was about priest who want to become married?
and here’s the thing: Benny’s dead wrong on this and has been since back when he was in charge of priestly discipline. There ALREADY ARE married Roman Catholic priests in the Eastern Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. IF we had more of them we wouldn’t have such a crisis in vocations in the US which wouldn’t have led to the relaxation of screening standards at seminaries, and we would have been able to weed out a LOT more pedophiles.
I personally believe Ratzinger’s shameful actions in the Cardinal Law case (which IMHO amounted to obstruction of justice) should have utterly disqualified him from consideration for the papacy. It shook my faith deeply when he ascended the throne of Peter, but then I remembered the church is more than the sum of its members.