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Oct 28 06 6:09 AM
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Quote:The proclamation of the Gospel and true discipleship has nothing to do with celibacy and the embarrassing lengths the Church has gone to in insisting on this mandatory discipline has done little for the people of God. In the end it has starved the people of Eucharist, increased the exodus of heterosexual priests who left to marry, left behind a predominantly gay priesthood many of whom serve the Church with zeal and dignity. Yet now it appears they too are becoming the scapegoat for the pedophilia crisis. In my next two articles I will trace the history of celibacy in the Church, a discipline which according to expert Richard Sipe less than 10 percent of priests have successfully negotiated.Lost to history are the writings of Augustine's antagonist Julian, the son of a bishop and married to a bishop's daughter. Julian rejected Augustine's negative view of sexual desire and original sin. For him, sexual desire within marriage furthered the divine plan and was only abused in extramarital affairs. Sadly, Augustine's defective thinking won the day and as Richard Sipe has written, "Sexual pleasure=women=evil." The championing of celibacy can be traced in large part to Augustine. The unbalanced ecclesiastical thinking, this preoccupation with sex throughout the centuries is a negative gift from the man from Hippo, North Africa. It has nothing to do with Jesus.More . . .
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