Albigensian Revenge

You Vil ALL Be Eunichs!!

The Albigensians were a strange lot, some called Cathars in Southern France. They were ascetics who shunned

marriage, were paper thin and engaging in a sort of suicide by starvation. Saint Dominic and his order of Dominicans

sought to convert them to Rome. As anyone who has done any mission work understands, to reach people it is important

to adopt enough custom of a missionizing people so that one is accepted and listened to. Had Dominic showed

up a fat pig eating twice his weight no one would have listened to him. So to an extent the accommodations of

asceticism were adopted by the Dominican order in order to reach the people and convert them. It would be hard to

listen to a sermon on fasting and prayer if someone was incapable of turning down a good steak at all times and

couldn't fit in the pulpit.

The Albigensians, for their fondness of suicide and disdain for marriage might have died out as a group

eventually were it not for the fact that they attracted converts themselves.

Another accommodation that the Dominicans adopted was a fierce adherence to the disdain of marriage 'for the 

Kingdom." What kingdom precisely is that , one wonders where the purported holiest people are wandering

around mutilated- because they also preached the 'resurrection OF THE BODY."

So this eunification of all clerics is really not scriptural, it is not of god, it is an accommodation, in part

to satisfy earthy provisional institutional needs and it was engrained by a false theology of the Dominican,

the 'order of preachers' who preached the fabricated theological underpinings of it effectively so as to

convince everyone that it was somehow mandated by God. It is a crock actually.

And the issue is not going away. A Time article written in 1966 is worth here resurrecting. Because it still is

not going away. Nor should it, until it is corrected. And the libidinally dead octogenerians should not get to

determine it's final say. There should be a committee of priests of all levels between the ages of 25 and 50 who

get to decide the issue. No one over 50 should even get to chime in.

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TIME

At each of the four Masses in Eind hoven's Our Lady of the Rosary Church, Dutch Bishop Willem Bekkers mounted the pulpit to tell the parish some startling news: two of their priests were resigning from the ministry, and one of them was planning to marry a widow with five children.

Since the priests had found them selves unable to keep their vows of chastity, explained the bishop, they had applied to Rome for dispensation from all clerical obligations. Bekkers, obviously sympathetic to the priests, asked the congregation not to reproach or condemn them but to pray for them, pointing out that they intended to remain loyal members of the church.

The bishop's bold public announcement pointed up what is, next to birth control, the major unfinished business of the Second Vatican Council. At the fourth session, Pope Paul bluntly told the bishops not to discuss the possibility of changing the church's rule on clerical celibacy, and council decrees strongly reinforced the traditional stand. But Rome has since discovered that the issue will not go away. Last month a group of Italian priests petitioned the Pope to relieve them from the celibacy obligation, arguing that it was an "intolerable burden" and that the rule had no basis in either Scripture or natural law. A similar petition was recently sent to Rome by 33 Brazilian priests, who claimed that they had the support of "hundreds and hundreds" of their fellow clerics. Theologians have continued to speculate on the problem, and within recent months Roman Catholic publishers in the U.S. have put out three books dealing critically with priestly celibacy.-

A Married Pope. At least one of Christ's Apostles-St. Peter-had a wife, and as late as 867, a married man became Pope: Adrian II. It was not until the First Lateran Council in 1123 that clerical marriage was clearly outlawed, and even after that priests, bishops and cardinals continued to skirt the rule by taking mistresses. Alexander VI fathered at least four children before he became Pope in 1492. French Historian Henri Daniel-Rops estimated that in 15th century Burgundy, half the children born out of wedlock were fathered by clerics.

Even now, following the tradition of Orthodoxy, Eastern-rite Catholic priests are allowed to marry before ordination (except in the U.S. and Canada, where Latin-rite Catholic bishops have until now opposed the idea as "giving rise to scandal"). Pope Paul and his two predecessors gave dispensations to a handful of convert Protestant ministers who were ordained in Europe as priests, even though they already had wives and children. Last month the Archbishop of Mariana in Brazil presided at the marriage of Pedro Maciel Vidigal, a former priest who was released from his vows by the Vatican, and is now a member of Congress.

A number of Catholic theologians have argued in recent years that a vocation to the priesthood and a vocation to celibacy do not necessarily exist in the same person. French Dominican Yves Congar, an influential theological adviser at the council, has suggested that a married diocesan clergy might be better able than single priests to enter into the life of the people. Dutch Theologian Rudolf Bunnik says that since there is no convincing reason for a celibate priesthood, it is "an anomaly" to have a church law requiring it.

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