Spiritual/Political/Philosophical Blog on the Nature of Truth and Falsehood and Heaven
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Tuesday, April 30, 2002 To sex or not to sex Emily Stimpson (thanks for the link!) at Fool's Folly (link on the right), is going to devote a series of blogs in defense of celibacy and why the American Catholic Church or Rome should not alter its policy. I have no quarrel at all with celibacy and do not consider it a cause for the present scandals, but I sure don't see why it can't be voluntary like the Eastern Orthodox Church. My fear is that the RCC uses celibacy to try to ensure that its clerics are pathologically dependant rather than having divided loyalties which family men would naturally have. All the supposed reasons that the Church imposed celibacy on priests having to do with simony (buying offices, maintaining family control of church offices, embezzling for the family, accepting bribes for their families) no longer apply when we see that Protestant and Orthodox churches have managed to handle those problems without much difficulty. posted by Mark Butterworth | 1:01 PM | |
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