Brothers and Sisters

Concubines, free labor and geriatric cougar fantasy wierdos.

Paul addressed the congregations he wrote letters to 'dear brothers and sisters.'
Fellow sojourners. My brothers and sisters in the faith.
Those relationships are special. They support out of filial love.
I have a priest friend who says he has many 'wives' because lots of women need him for...not sure what....emotional support and keeping their kids in line. Priests can provide
this function in environments particularly in poor communities where there is abundant
absence of responsible fathers.
I don't have a problem with him or that concept because he is not engaging in emotional polygamy. There is a difference in that and a cultish leader engaging in emotional polygamy who really does have bonding with multiple wives going on, leading on several people simultaneously into thinking that they are his 'wife' as such. It is a basic bonding need he fulfills variously. Then there are those who actually do have sex with women. Emotionally the former can be just as bonded.
The church, I am convinced knows who these characters are and pimps them out- because if you can lull a bunch of dumb women into thinking this you get all kinds of benefits. There should be a movie "Priests with benefits" like all the free labor you need, as much money as you ask for, free dinner any time, all the free wedding banquet food you can eat, free stays at the summer beach house, and places to put all your traveling visiting priest friends in usually the nicest living quarters in the hood. Not a bad deal.
As for the women? Convince them there is some greater reward to sqandering their fertility in deluded idolization of these characters while they fold altar cloths, follow them around the all you can eat crabfest, and pay the light bill and you have a parish.

The above referenced priest who says he has many wives is cute and doesn't know what he is talking about because he is so sweet and innocent he wouldn't know an intimate interaction with a woman if he found himself stuck in a shower with a naked woman by accident.
Then there is the other kind......and the other kind should be married so as not to waste women's lives in deluded manipulative nonsense for years.