2007-05-02 02:58:26 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Catholic Church does not need to be improved, it needs to be understood.
There are very few who hate the Catholic Faith, but millions that hate what they think the Catholic Faith is.
Read the Catechism and come back, we will talk!
Peace!
2007-05-02 03:02:22 · answer #1 · answered by C 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I think I see...
You seem to be under the impression that the castration of clergymen will solve all the Church's problems pertaining to the clergy sex scandal.
Castration would not accomplish this.
You see, while castration removes a part of the human body, it does not remove that person's tendency to commit sin. Castration will not strenghten then against the temptations that caused them to sin in the first place.
It is the temptation that must be removed. This can be done without castration.
Besides, you are advocating every priest to become eunuchs. Where is the justice in this when only 6% of clergy are sexually deviant? Granted, that is 6% too many, but 6% does not justify 100%.
While I am concerned about the state of the Catholic clergy, in leau of the clergy sex scandal, castration - for many, many reasons, is not the answer to the problem.
2007-05-04 02:55:44 · answer #2 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
vows of celibacy are not the cause of rampant child abuse now being reported in regards to the Catholic Church. The subjugation of the divine feminine in the gathering of believers in the ascended master Yeshua Bar Josef by the politician Constantine in the 4th century c.e. is the root of this evil. Balance is the key to all endeavor.
2007-05-02 03:06:36 · answer #3 · answered by Princessa Macha Venial 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If a priest's instinctive sexual behavior must be perverted by enforced celibacy for reasons of ecclesiastical dogma, mandatory castration may well be the best way to protect a parish full of innocent young boys. Of course, such extreme measures would have to be strictly voluntary. I personally hope that one Pope or another will have a "revelation" and allow the priesthood to abandon their misogynistic superstitions, get married, and rejoin the human race.
2007-05-02 03:21:41 · answer #4 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, but it might help the choir along!
Anyway, it's really only a small (some smaller than others) step to this from the Rabbinical requirements....
2007-05-02 03:08:17 · answer #5 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. We need to keep closer eye on priests. I think it would be a good thing if they let priests marry though. : )
2007-05-02 03:03:07 · answer #6 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don’t be impatient for the Lord to act! Travel steadily along His path. Psalm 37
2007-05-02 03:01:02 · answer #7 · answered by Laura S 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, because this would amount to sexual mutilation of the human body without just cause. You cannot blame an entire class of people for the acts of a small number.
2007-05-02 03:02:23 · answer #8 · answered by WC 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps you could get some realistic answers from the 16,000 families of abused children.
http://www.survivorsfirst.org/
http://www.snapnetwork.org/
http://www.joshuachildrensfoundation.org/clergyabuse.php
http://www.snapnetwork.org/news/calif/los_angeles_priest_abuse.htm
2007-05-02 03:06:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes quite definately
2007-05-02 03:01:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋