[Jeff Chandler]

Why would anyone listen to a Catholic clergy member about anything that has to do with sex and relationships?

That depends on the answers to four questions:

1. Do you believe that truth is universal?
2. Do you believe that accumulated knowledge and wisdom can be transmitted to future generations, or do you feel that it is exclusively experiential--that every human being is completely unique and everything man has learned about human nature over thousands of years cannot possibly apply to an individual circumstance today?
3. Is the particular clergyman sufficiently educated in the universal truths and accumulated knowledge and wisdom transmitted though the ages?
4. Does the particular clergyman believe in the universal truths and accumulated knowledge and wisdom transmitted though the ages and attempt to live by them, or does he either believe that recent ideological deviations have, by their very modernity and their cover of scientific sanction superseded them, or believe in them yet decide to follow his own will?

[stuartcr]

Would you seek marital or sexual guidance/advice from someone that is celibate?