You can ban them but that doesn’t keep out closet cases. What’d really decrease the proportion of homosexuals and pedophiles in the priesthood is allowing priests to marry. That’d also rectify the embarrassing contradiction of a pro-life church taking an anti-life position by forbidding its priests to bring life into the world.
Other faiths and denominations that have married clergy deal with the same problems; ministers, rabbis, and coaches simply abuse the power regardless of whether or not they are married.
Catholic priests in the eastern Churches can marry. I believe there is a rationale to the celibacy, as all of the apostles (our first priests) were martyred save one.
What’d really decrease the proportion of homosexuals and pedophiles in the priesthood is allowing priests to marry.
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What substantive proof do you have for such a statement?