Maybe it was the movie Spotlight. Maybe it was the recent news that the real scandal of “Billy Doe” was when he conned the Archdioceses of Philly out of a cool 5-million. Either way, the question of celibacy is back in the air.
It doesn’t matter, statistically speaking, that there is no correlation between the celibate life and sexual abuse. It doesn’t matter that, as a 2004 study of the issue showed, children are some 100 times more likely to be sexually abused by a teacher than a priest. It doesn’t matter that celibates tend to be pretty much as boring as everyone else. We are ideologically and culturally armed against the normalization of celibacy — spiritually committed to the image of the “dirty priest.”
That is to say — we’re Protestant.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2016/01/rethinking-celibacy-in-the-lgbtqqip2saa-age-part-1.html
It doesn’t matter, statistically speaking, that there is no correlation between the celibate life and sexual abuse. It doesn’t matter that, as a 2004 study of the issue showed, children are some 100 times more likely to be sexually abused by a teacher than a priest. It doesn’t matter that celibates tend to be pretty much as boring as everyone else. We are ideologically and culturally armed against the normalization of celibacy — spiritually committed to the image of the “dirty priest.”
That is to say — we’re Protestant.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2016/01/rethinking-celibacy-in-the-lgbtqqip2saa-age-part-1.html