They can keep a monastic lifestyle for men who are called to it, so long as they're not homosexual of course. The RCC must at all costs purge its ranks of gay men. But it won't. Know why? Because all or nearly all the men who would make the decision are themselves homosexuals.
The RCC was thoroughly infiltrated by gays beginning circa 1930. It's over. They own the entire clergy from the Vatican on down. I see no way short of some major calamity/chastisement that the gays can be dislodged.
That's why I left the RCC. And I was a good little hymn singer, too. But after I learned that my best friend was molested as a kid by a priest, and one of my nephews, maybe two of my nephews, then I really just had to say enough. I have a reputation to keep up. I can't have my good name associated with anything in a Roman collar.
LOL. Nonsense. The Church is the only institution where chastity is the bar of admittance to clergy, and it is needed in the fallen society as such. Homosexuality among priests is a problem that has been largely resolved through better scrutiny in the seminaries.
I do call for Holy Inquisition to be sent to the US and other Western countries to eradicate fallen priests completely, and do it demonstrably in the historical paradigm of the Holy Church. But that cannot be done by a church that first surrendered its centuries-old discipline and then tries to fight from that changed premise.
What you do with yourself is your call. My advice is, however, penance.
” Nothing will work until the RCC scraps once and for all the celibacy rule for priests. The rule is the main reason the clergy is overrun with homosexuals and all the spiritual disease they bring to the Church.” -——
The condition of celibacy for the Catholic priesthood since the time of the Apostles was encouraged by Jesus, and in obedience to Christ Jesus the condition has enjoyed no debilitating effect on the Roman Church, at least that has been even sparsely documented.
In my opinion this reasoning is a modern canard used for venting the misplaced rage about the real cause(s) of the overall sad condition of the Catholic Church in the West.
This canard is also useful to enemies of the Church who openly wish to mess with the signs and identity of the Catholic Church— to make Holy Mother Church appear increasingly more Protestant. After all, one-size-fits-all is so very ecumenical looking, and oozes “unity”.
One might say the Church becomes more pedestrian, ordinary, so we can kill dead that idea of being evermore a
“peculiar people” as scripture identifies the people of God.
No, celibacy is not the problem. Looking and becoming more like the world is the problem, against which Jesus admonished His people.
Geeze, I just saw your post here. How heartbreaking and savage. I despise what happened to your family and friend.
Satan stirred and yours were struck. My God, I’m so sorry for you and yours.
I have to ask.... what is your answer if a school teacher does the same, do we drop the institution of public schools?
(Which I’m all FOR, for other obvious reasons, btw.)
Nothing will work until the RCC scraps once and for all the celibacy rule for priests.
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LOL! That claim is as old as the Church, but it is not true.