Doesn't Catholic doctrine automatically ensure homosexual priests?

Question

This has been my feeling for years. The celibacy restrictions put on Catholic priests automatically ensures that they will have all the homosexuals lining up? I don't understand how a young man, who's hormones should be raging, can say, "Yeah, I want to never touch a woman for the rest of my life!" I think that priests must have homosexual tendencies to begin with to even consider this way of life!

I'm not saying it's bad, I don't hate gays or Catholics. I just think that Catholics need to wake up to what's going on!

Answer 1

I don't think so.

Any young man, whether heterosexual or homosexual, has raging hormones.

This idea of a celibate clergy came from the Jews, John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul. All three of these holy men were celibate heterosexuals (to the best of our knowledge).

The Jews. The Talmud argues that a person whose “soul is bound up with the Torah and is constantly occupied with it” may remain celibate (Maimonides, Laws of Marriage 15.3). For example, Yahweh ordered the prophet Jeremiah not to marry (Jeremiah 16:1-4). Moreover, the Essenes was a group that was active in Jesus’ time that practiced celibacy and thought by most scholars to be the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

WWJD? What would Jesus do? Jesus did not marry.

John the Baptist and Jesus are both believed to have been celibate for their entire lives. Some scholars believe that the example of the Essenes influenced either or both Jesus and John the Baptist in their celibacy.

The Apostle Paul is explicit about his celibacy (see 1 Cor. 7). There is also evidence in the gospel of Matthew for the practice of celibacy among at least some early Christians, in the famous passage about becoming “eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:12).

The concept took many twists and turns over the years and will probably take a few more before Christ returns in glory.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The premise of your questions ignores too many realities of the sitation:

1) Celibacy is not a restriction, it is a discipline. All priests-to-be voluntarily accept this discipline. It is not forced upon them against their will.

2) You simply assume that celibacy attracts homosexuals to the priesthood. How do you figure, when you consider that that both hetero and homo priests are called to the same discipline of celibacy?

3) Your premise also assumes merely being homosexual is a bad thing. This is untrue. Merely being a homosexual is not a sin, Homosexual acts, and any heterosexual acts that take place outside of marriage, violate Christian chastity and is sinful.

Even though there are homosexual priests, as long as they remain celibate, there's nothing wrong with priest being homosexual.

You migtht not hate gays or catholics, or gay catholics, but you don't sound as if you know a whole lot about Church Teachings pertaining to them.

You might want to look into how deeply the Church has already considered these issues. Do so and you will see that it is not Catholics that have top "wake up" as you put it. It's those who oppose the Truth, or at the very least, assume too much.

Answer 3

Some gay men become priest or monastics, but most priest and religious are not. Believe it or not, even a man can control himself. And Gay or not, a priest is suppose to be celibate. That doesn't just mean not marrying, it means no sex.

Society is more sexually permissive these days, and maybe that is why there is a shortage of priest now. But in the old days, many men were devoted to God and did not feel that they had to have sex all the time. Celibacy is a very freeing thing, more people should try it. Maybe we wouldn't have to debate pro-choice issues if people went back to the old ways and valued chastity..

Answer 4

I disagree with the Catholic doctrine of ceibacy. I think it is a perversion of the passage in Romans where Paul says he wishes all could be like him, single and able to devote all their energies to serving God. It does not mean that those without the gift of celibacy should not get married.

That being said, I think the chruch needs to do a major housecleaning if it is to regain the credibility it has lost due to the actions of a few sinful men.

Answer 5

On 'The View' immediately, they stated that the present Pope became into on a team for the previous two decades assigned to check out pedophile clergymen. They suggested there's a documentary that's popping out approximately this. all of us who has intercourse with somebody of the comparable intercourse is a gay, yet no longer all pedophiles do this. So i've got the prefer to make sparkling that no longer all homosexuals are pedophiles, and that's probably a small proportion of the gay inhabitants.

Answer 6

Actually, your totally wrong. Gays are "no more likely to enter the priesthood than straights." But that's what years of prejudice and ignorance will teach you. Why would a homosexual want a celebate life? Why would a straight guy want a celebate life? That's like saying all nuns must be lesbians.

Do the world a favor and keep your mouth closed to "remove all signs of ignorance."

Answer 7

While I doubt that it was ever the intention, the celibacy doctrine created a safe haven and socially acceptable and respectable place for homosexual males in societies where they would otherwise be ostracized.

Answer 8

If a priest decides he can't control himself, then he should leave the priesthood and find a wife. However, I think the current situation is the result of the failure of the priests to discipline themselves.

Answer 9

so if they wish to abstain from sex .... they must be homosexual anyway ?
lol this is a ridiculous conclusion
they are abstaisning full stop ....
not only from women if they are straight but from men if they are gay

Answer 10

You might be on to something..