All The Time.
The Pope is constantly, have you noticed, defending permanent celibacy for priests.
Here he is again defending the indefensible:
http://www.h2onews.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=224445224
I'm sorry but this is pure crap. if you buy it you are a moron. End of Story.
The "roots" of the church everywhere told but scrubbed vatican archives is that for the first 1,000 years there was no mandatory priestly celibacy. The first Pope Peter was married as were everyone else and Paul calls this a "right." Don't we have a "right" to have our wives travel with us he asks in Corinthians....but he declines. He says he does this not because the Lord told him that everyone is better off as he is and expressly says, I Paul would wish everyone were as I am but that's just me, not the Lord talking.
The entire theology of permanent celibacy for the priesthood was fashioned after the schism of the Bzyantine Church. No Jewish congregation maintains it, not an Eastern Orthodox or Byzantine Rite church maintains it. No Protestant or reformed group maintains it. Because it's crap.
After the first 1,000 yrs the western church became more sexist, more despising of women, banished them from ranks of leadership, persecuted wives of priests, forced divorces in some cases and redefined holiness to exclude conjugal love making these mutually exclusive. It's crap and totally psychologically perverse.
So sick of it. So so so sick of it.
If you believe it, I repeat. M O R O N.
Read a history book.
The notion that this is somehow more pious or elevated thinking is just ABSOLUTE couldn't be more ridiculous nonsense- it's already been repudiated by JPII. It's totally tragically pathetic that anyone listens to him for five seconds when he goes off like this.
Sorry Benoit. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
The Catholic Church has a real problem in parts understanding a proper role of women- treats them like garbage in some corners, as mere 'temptation' to the artificial holiness it tries to sell.
I have news for him- not buyin' it- Jesus never said "I am the great white eunich come down to permenantly castrate you so you can be the pet poodle of the lonely widows club and baptize only everyone else's children." sorry- not in the scripture. Don't add from it, don't subtract from it- and read Timothy 4.
I hate to turn the channel on the Pope but here he is just stomach churningly ignorant. Sorry.
The great Scandal is that he perpetrates this madness with conviction. And all the little dow eyed boys nodded "yes, yoda." wankers convention.
Jesus, the Jewish one from Nazareth, not the cross-dressing roman robed one in your head, opened his ministry at a wedding. He talks about the 'bridegroom' with keys to lock anyone out of the wedding and by his analogy the kingdom, referencing himself. He chooses Peter and cures his mother in law (so it wasn't a secret he had a wife). Jesus lays down the rule about how divorce is only permitted because of the 'hardness of your hearts' (so how rock hard would your heart be to shut yourself off totally from it ever), and don't even start with me on how close he was to Mary Magdalene and what their relationship was about as she runs first to the tomb with the embalming oils that only family members get to rub all over a dead body when it was totally unclean for anyone not a family member to even see one. Yes the church has done a number on women for years--10 centuries actually--, but one thing that is clear is that the made up theology about anything holy about permenant celibacy is a total ridiculous crock that promotes perversions of heart and mind and the most bizarre forms of under the radar bonding you never want to know about.
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