Wednesday,
August 29, 2007
Catholic Clerical
Celibacy; Hypocrisy or Idiocy? News Flash:
Priest Professes Love for Single Mom
The
ANNOTICO Report
While
the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church would want members to believe
that one cannot serve two masters ( God and your Spouse), or that one
would be distracted by Marriage and Children from their Principle Mission, and
therefore Celibacy is Necessary.
Worse,
some Church leaders have started to give out the Impression that celibacy
was of apostolic origin -- that it had been built
in at the beginning.
In Truth,
prior to the Middle Ages, it was allowable for Catholic Priests to have
Multiple Wives, and Mistresses (Concubines).
Actually,
the MAIN REASON Celibacy
was introduced by the First Lateran Council (1123 AD)
was STRICTLY FINANCIAL !!!!!!!!
With
more Decentralized Power at that time, Priests and Bishops were acquiring great
PERSONAL WEALTH (from those trying to buy their way into Heaven), and the
Churchmen were then passing on this wealth through Inheritance to their Heirs.
The Church felt it was being deprived of great Resources, and therefore
Outlawed Priestly Inheritance, AND MARRIAGE
!!!!!
As
Proof of the Total Irrelevance of Celibacy to Dedicated Religious Leaders, one
has only to look to the Protestant, and Jewish Religions, who have NOT
suffered because of married Priests or Rabbis, but have THRIVED
!!!!!!!
Further
Sadly, Up until recent times the Best and the Brightest Sons went into the
Church. In the Catholic Church, their genes were not propagated, and there was
a "Dumbing Down" in the community . In the Protestant and Jewish Faiths
with the Best and Brightest encouraged to be married and have children, there
was instead a "Smarting Up". Also there were Religious leaders that
were more personally "in touch with"
the practical problems of marriage, and could therefore provide wiser counsel.
Then
again , in the Protestant and Jewish
faiths, there are NOT the Widespread Violations of Celibacy, the Convent
Scandals, or the Pedophile Scandals.
The
Catholic Church because of it's Celibacy stance,
becomes particularly vulnerable/attractive to the "wholesale"
infiltration of homosexuals, (who the Catholic Church rails against) who would choose the priesthood in
an attempt to deny or hide their natural sexual orientation.
Eventually,with celibacy being so unnatural regardless if one is born heterosexual,
homosexual or bi, Few can remain celibate, and then only because of some
physical problem). Therefore, the consequences with Hetro
Sexual Priests are Sex with Female Married/Unmarried Parishioners, Nuns, Prostitutes., And with Homo Sexual Priests, Sex
with Fellow Priests and young Male Alter Boys.
And
Finally while the Catholic Church is losing priests
at an appalling rate, and finding it difficult to recruit new ones,
there is No such problem in the Protestant or Jewish Faiths.
The
Catholic Church is it's own worst enemy!!!
First
Century; Peter,
the first pope, and the apostles that Jesus chose were, for the most part,
married men.
Second
and Third Century; Age of Gnosticism: A person cannot be married and be
perfect. However, most priests were married.
Fourth
Century 325-Council of Nicea: decreed that after ordination a priest could not
marry.
385-Pope Siricius left his wife in order to
become pope. Decreed that priests may no longer sleep with
their wives.
Fifth
Century 401-St. Augustine wrote, "Nothing is so powerful
in drawing the spirit of a man downwards as the caresses of a woman"
Sixth Century 567-2nd
Council of
580-Pope
Pelagius II: Did not bot
her married priests as long as they did not hand over church property to wives
or children.
590-604-Pope
Gregory "the Great": All sexual desire is sinful in itself (meaning
that sexual desire is intrinsically evil?).
Seventh
Century;
Eighth
Century; St.
Boniface reported to the pope that in
Ninth
Century; 836-Council of
St. Ulrich, argued that the only way to purify the church from the
excesses of .celibacy was to permit priests marry.
Eleventh
Century 1045-Pope Boniface IX
dispensed himself from celibacy and resigned in order to marry.
1074-Pope
Gregory VII said anyone to be ordained must first pledge celibacy with their
wives.
1095-Pope
Urban II had priests’ wives sold into slavery, children were abandoned.
Twelfth
Century
1123-Pope Calistus II: First Lateran Council
decreed that clerical marriages were invalid.
1139-Pope
Innocent II: Second Lateran Council confirmed the previous council’s
decree
Fifteenth
Century; Transition;
50% of priests are married and accepted by the people.
Sixteenth
Century 1545-63-Council of
=http://www.futurechurch.org/fpm/history.htm
See
Also: Popes who were Married; Popes who were the Sons
of other Popes; Popes who had Illegitimate Children after 1139
(ANSA) -
August 28, 2007
A Catholic priest
in northern
Father Sante Sguotti of Monterosso near
But he stressed
that their relationship would remain a chaste one because he did not want to jeopardise his job."Canon
law does not forbid a priest to fall in love or become engaged in a celibate
manner. I want to remain in the Church and so I will obey the celibacy
rule," Sguotti said.
He also urged
other priests who were in love to "come forward"
and break their silence.
Sguotti triggered alarm among his
superiors earlier this month by implying that he was the father of his
girlfriend's one-year-old child. The local bishop subsequently told Sguotti he expected him to quit, to the dismay of most of
the priest's 800 parishioners, who are understanding
of his predicament.
But Sguotti said on Tuesday that he had been joking and had
simply wanted to provoke debate about the need for priestly celibacy.
"This is the
first time I have been in love since becoming a priest. I believe it's a
fundamental stage in life. A person can't be a good priest or nun or anything
else in life unless he has experienced love at least once," he said.”
Life in the seminary, where all contact with women is forbidden and you are
banned from going to bars, swimming pools and movies, is wrong because it warps
your personality," Sguotti continued.
He also argued
that the Church's celibacy requirement meant that "only the most closed
and narrow-minded priests, the least humane ones, get ahead”.” The
Church is losing the best part of itself," Sguotti said.
The Vatican has
never shown any sign of altering its long tradition of demanding celibacy from
priests, despite calls for a rethink from dissidents in the US and elsewhere.
Late last year
Pope Benedict XVI rejected a request from excommunicated Zambian archbishop
Emmanuel Milingo to accept married priests into the
Catholic Church.
"The value
of the choice of priestly celibacy was reaffirmed, in line with Catholic
tradition," a
The statement
came after the once-married Milingo wrote an open
letter to the pope, urging immediate steps to allow married priests in the
Catholic Church.
He said the
Church was in "dire straits" because of a vocation crisis and that
allowing priests to marry would help resolve the shortage.
Milingo has founded an
association of like-minded clerics to promote his cause. The organisation - called Married Priests Now! - says about
150,000 Catholic priests have left the Church in order to marry.
Monsignor Milingo was excommunicated last September
after he presided over an unauthorised
ceremony in
The first pope,
Saint Peter, as well as many subsequent popes,
bishops, and priests during the church's first 270 years were in fact married
men and often fathers.
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