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To: NRx

The Catholic priesthood has become a gay men’s club. When I was a kid nearly every priest I knew was a real man and that was true until about 15 years ago. Now every Catholic priest I know is a limp wristed fairy. Every single one.


6 posted on 02/04/2016 6:08:28 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: pgkdan

That is certainly not people’s experience in the Church at large. You may be in a corrupt patch.


8 posted on 02/04/2016 6:56:12 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: pgkdan

Not every Roman Catholic Priest is homosexual or practicing homosexual but I admit that many I have run into are. There are still some very good unselfish priests who are priests because they love God and want to serve him. Unfortunately there are many priests who are priests because it is a good place to find sexual partners.

The problem of homosexuality is not as big a problem in the Orthodox church where priests can be married, while many are not. In the Eastern Catholic church you must not be married if you wish to become a bishop.

There is no strictly religious or doctrinal reason for celibacy, the early church fathers started expounding on it and it was eventually canonized in the centuries after Constantine. The idea is that without a family you can devote your whole life to The Church and it’s members. You can be “married” to The Church and therefore to Christ.

The Apostles in the time of Christ were married except for Paul however there have been writers that say while they were married they did not have sex with their wives. There is absolutely no early doctrine or written support for this position.

I personally think celibacy is a mistake. While I admire those who can devote their lives to The Church I think the doctrine promotes homosexuality, pedophilia and adultery. God placed in man the desire for a woman if you deny the fulfillment of that desire then the desire turns into a fire that is never quenched until a horrible mistake is made. Once the mistake is made it then requires the sin to be hidden which moves the priest far from God and he becomes a shell of his former devoted self.

Marriage of priests would solve a lot of problems in The Church.


14 posted on 02/04/2016 8:41:08 AM PST by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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