[SuziQ]

I do wish people would stop confusing celibacy with chastity, though. The vow of celibacy is a vow never to formally marry. The vow of chastity is the vow to behave themselves

Which I believe is the reason for the Pope's recent statement on preparing men for the priesthood and men and women for the religious life. He re-states the Church's teachings on celibacy, stressing chastity. In the Church's mind, the two are synonymous, and anyone who tries to separate the two in order to bypass the teaching is trying to justify sinful behavior.

[Salvation]

Which I believe is the reason for the Pope's recent statement on preparing men for the priesthood and men and women for the religious life. He re-states the Church's teachings on celibacy, stressing chastity. In the Church's mind, the two are synonymous, and anyone who tries to separate the two in order to bypass the teaching is trying to justify sinful behavior.

Let us pray that the visits to the seminaries will be unannounced (I doubt it.) and that seminarians will tell the truth when questionsed by the team the Pope is sending out.