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They ARE { Cannonically speaking } TOTALLY CELIBATE.

However you can screw anything that walks every day of your life and { Cannonically speaking } remain CELIBATE.




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The myth of celibacy is as much a fraud as purgatory.

. . . Richard Sipe is on a roll here:


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The glaring failure of the document is the assumption that the simple appointment of trainers, specifically vocation directors, confessors, spiritual directors, rectors and faculty will transmit the ideals and form the characters of the candidates. The document fails to aver to the difficulty of finding personnel of sufficient merit and control to fulfill those responsibilities.

The history of seminaries is full of accounts of spiritual directors, faculty, and rectors who are themselves sexually active and many times with the students they are directing. This is not a minor problem. Vocation directors have among their corps a host of sexually active priests (often chosen for their physically attractiveness rather that their stability and virtue).

How long will it take for the Bishops start to deal with the sexual problems in seminaries and the ministry where they reside: With themselves and clergy in responsible positions? What will it take? Do they have to be named? Do they have to be sued for harassment, rape, and worse?

If Bishops do not address this reality it will be taken out of their hands.


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