Posted on 05/17/2022 1:31:51 PM PDT by viewfromthefrontier
A senior German priest has announced that he is no longer Catholic, citing his disappointment over a lack of “reforms” in the Church and admitting to having broken his promise of celibacy.
“At the same time, I experience how much hope is placed in ongoing processes such as the Synodal Way. But I’m no longer in a position to also proclaim and honestly and sincerely share that hope, because I simply don’t have it anymore.”
The former vicar general described the ordination of women to the priesthood, as well as “the abolition of compulsory celibacy, dealing with queer people, co-determination of the laity, blessing ceremonies for homosexuals and overall sexual morality in the Church,” as the most important topics that he believed were not being addressed.
Admitting in an interview to having broken the promise of celibacy, Sturm told the local newspaper Mannheimer Morgen that he had long doubted whether the Catholic Church was “a good fit for me,” even in seminary and as a pastor.
In a number of interviews with German newspapers, Sturm said that he was launching a book about his experience. The title of the publication, scheduled for release in June, is “I have to get out of this Church,” with the subtitle “Because I want to remain a human being. A vicar general speaks out.”
According to a press release by the publisher Herder, Sturm said: “For me, there was only ever the Roman Catholic Church and my life in it and with it. In the meantime, I have been asking myself for some time whether I am not also co-dependent. Co-dependent on this Church.
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Married priests? Some are allowed to be married...why are some forbidden to marry? Women priests? I could be persuaded either way on that. Endorsing homosexual acts? Nope,no way! Homosexual marriage...”transgenderism”? Nope,no way!
So, when will he be marrying his husband?
Some are allowed to be married...
We had a married priest at Ft Hood when I was there. We asked this same question to him. He said, he was a married Episcopalian minister and entered the catholic church as a priest. Ergo, allowed to remain married.
What an idiot, to completion. A complete idiot.
God "instilled" in all men a strong desire to have the companionship of a wife. That need is almost as strong as the need for air and food.
Periodic celibacy? OK,I can accept that that might be pleasing to God...but lifelong is more difficult for me to understand.
Buh bye
Here is why priests are celibate.
Occasional celibacy for priests would be understandable...and beneficial...for the same reason that meatless Fridays are.Celibacy on Sundays,Holy Days and perhaps during Lent would qualify,IMO.
Lifelong celibacy for some but not for others? Very,very hard for me to understand.
Eastern Orthodox priests can be married.
Yup,understood.
If eastern orthodox priests marry, they cannot become bishops. They have to make up their mind one way or the other.
Yes. And this is kind of why I posted the article. Is this what schism will look like - priests defecting to a quasi-Catholic state, more friendly to their heretical views?
I think you’re onto something there. Based on precedent, some of them will probably defect to other quasi-Catholic groups, while others in contact with the defectors will try to remain attached to the Church so they can continue to undermine from within and leech off existing resources.
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