The Article is written by: Reverend Bryan Griem of the Montrose Community church.
The Roman Catholic Church is deliberately overlooking the obvious.
Human beings are sexual creatures; we wouldn't be here if that weren't so. God created sex, called it "good," and commanded we experience it by filling the earth. He ascribed no special holiness to deniers of this God-given nature exercised in God-designed contexts, and he nowhere mandated that only eunuchs qualify as clergy.
Besides, how is it better to be unfamiliar with what is part-and-parcel of every parishioner's normal existence?
Saint Peter had a wife; Jesus healed his "mother-in-law" (Matthew 8:14-15) NIV, and St. Paul said "We have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles (1 Corinthians 9:5 NIV). So celibacy wasn't even modeled for us by Christ's personally ordained leaders!
This said, it doesn't explain deprived, heterosexual, religious men would assault underage boys, and most of these abuse cases involve young teenage boys, not generally small children or girls. That would make these not generally heterosexual pedophile cases, but instances of hebephilia or ephebophilia. These are perversions of heterosexuality in that they're homosexual, and worse because they prey upon minors.
How would celibacy rules contribute to an environment where this occurs? Consider that unstable men, struggling with their own sexual disorders, may seek out such rigid regulations to restrain themselves. If all sex is forbidden, then they won't be having perverted sex, right? The problem is, they wind up in all-male institutions with like-minded seminarians, and a sort of conspiracy occurs. Then they're assigned parishes replete with endless stables of altar boys. Cycle complete.
I say, have the pope go sit on his chair, agree with God, then make an ex cathedra pronouncement affirming what Catholics already know- that god doesn't forbid ministers marriage, and that the age of pederast priests is over!!!
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