Many See Need For Reform and it's Fracturing the Intransient Church worse than the Pope's wrist.
By last poll over 70% of American Catholics want to see a Married Priesthood option- because it will sort the wheat from the chaff, the emotional adulterers from those who are really
Holy Spirit inspired celibates and take away the idolotry of celibacy which is not the goal- Love is.
John said "God is Love" and he never said "God is Celibate" because God in fact bore a son, and is the Father, natural and spiritual of all humanity. The absurdity of the proposition that celibacy is the truest purest path to holiness is manifestly evident to most people-as a contradiction of the existential nature of God-and is contradicted by the triune Holy "FAMILY" -including past Pope John Paul II who made it clear that he did not believe celibacy was an existential requirement of the priesthood.
Yet what has been fashioned for about a millenium as an institutional accomodation has now taken on an idolotry that misleads priests and laity alike, to serve the institutional goals from which an entire theology has been created (and existed only for about a thousand years), and fosters the sort of psychological perversity and emotional abuses against women that parts of the priesthood are famous for. It fosters the hypocricy that leads priests to take on "spiritual girlfriends" who support their work, act like church basement housewives, get possessively jealous, sometimes viciously and vindictively territorial about their "Priest" friends whom they lock away from anyone with a skirt shorter than a habit.
So people are literally screaming for reform. Good priests like Father Cutie couldn't take it any longer and just left and got married, going the way of that august Augustinian aescetic self-flagulating Friar Martin Luther (the first original one.)
The priest at the center of the Medjugordje apparations who was the confessor to the visionaries has requested himself to be laicized after given onerous punishments because he has fathered a child. Medjugordje is considered one of those windows to heaven where messages are still being conveyed by apparitions of the Blessed Mother-one of the holiest places of pilgrimmage to some who testify to healing miracles of mind, heart and body. One wonders if this Priest was healed of the miseducation he obtained in the seminary indoctrination that fooled his heart into thinking that celibacy was anything Jesus ever in a million years compelled anyone to practice in his name when no Jewish priest was ever given such a command.
And still the Church wants to condemn anyone who does not buy into the doctrine (flatly rejected by the Byzantine rite-the closest historically to the original church, the entire Eastern rite and all of the rest of Christendom), debunked by JPII himself that celibacy is the purest form of holiness and existentially necessary for the priesthood. This is not a gospel of "Life"- A gospel of "Life" would encourage "Life" to be born.
Emotionally torturing women is not Life giving. It is Life miscarrying.
How wrong is this:
http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-26598
How Unlovely.
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/catholicamerica/2008/05/the_married_priest_option.html
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