WHAT A MARRIED PRIEST CAN TEACH ABOUT CELIBACY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The concept of virginity at this time of deification of sex
and the reign of impulses as a method of achieving freedom may sound
old-fashioned and even unnatural. In the case of celibacy of priesthood in the
Catholic Church,it has been blamed for the decline of priestly vocations and
even noted it as the root of the sexual abuse perpetrated by priests. But the
experience of married priests that profess in the Catholic Churh of Eastern and
Byzantine Rite questions this mainstream reasoning.