[Zipporah]

I commend the Msgr. for addressing the issue head on but particularly regarding homosexuality but.. "constant assault on celibacy by liberals" ..now IF all the assaults, as some have asserted, happened in the 60s,70's, etc.. I don't recall any huge assault by the liberals on celibacy then. And also if it an American problem, how is it there has been sexual scandal etc from other countries?

[Tom Pain]

Phil Donahue led a big assault on celibacy on his TV program from the 70's into the 90's, as I remember. And Phil certainly is/was a BIG Catholic liberal.

[RobbyS]

I don't recall any huge assault by the liberals on celibacy then[In the 1960s]. What you don't remeber the number of priests and seminarians who quit to gett married. LIBERALS had been feeding them the lines for years that the pope was about to end celibacy as a requirement. When Paul VI--the LIBERALS' choice--disappointed them, the exodus began.

[ELS]

I don't recall any huge assault by the liberals on celibacy then.

Have you ever heard of the sexual revolution that began in the 1960's?

[pgkdan]

now IF all the assaults, as some have asserted, happened in the 60s,70's, etc.. I don't recall any huge assault by the liberals on celibacy then.

He's a priest...talking about liberals in the Church. There has been a constant attack against celibacy and the all male Priesthood ever since Vatican II.