One problem I notice when hearing or reading about the
celibacy arguments in the Catholic priesthood is when talking about priesthood but really meaning
celibacy and vice versa.
'Personally, I think that
celibacy is a gift to the Church,' the pope said this past week.
Some also say that enforced
celibacy could be linked to cases of sexual misconduct by priests.
REVEREND MICHAL LAJCHA-a Catholic priest in Slovakia, where 62 percent of the population is Roman Catholic--has written a book challenging the church's rules on clerical
celibacy, in which he asserts that changing the mandatory nature of this requirement to a voluntary one and allowing married men to become priests could help prevent sex scandals in the future.
Abstract: This essay endeavors to demonstrate that
celibacy <<for the sake of the Kingdom>> conveys important lessons for human flourishing.
Many Catholic priests have expressed intentions to abandon priestly
celibacy, join the Renewed Universal Catholic Church and get themselves wives.
Thus,
celibacy is particularly fitting to a Catholic priest for, by virtue of his vocation, ordination and functions, he is called to be Alter Christus (another Christ).
Erin Judge; VOW OF
CELIBACY; Rare Bird Books (Fiction: LGBT) 15.95 ISBN: 9781942600725
Unnatural Frenchmen: The Politics of Priestly
Celibacy and Marriage, 1720-1815
More recently, he was quoted as saying on priestly
celibacy, "There are solutions and I will find them." The comments were, however, immediately denied by a Vatican spokesman.
POPE Francis has indicated the Catholic Church could lift its
celibacy rule.
India, July 6 -- It is widely reported (cfr.Indian Currents, 26 May - 01 June 2014) that 26 Italian women requested Pope Francis to suspend the law of priestly
celibacy so that they could conveniently marry the priests they were in love with.
In recent times there has been an increasing number of challenges to the rule of mandatory
celibacy for priests.
Priestly
celibacy is rooted in tradition, not Catholic dogma, so the pope could change it overnight.
