I'm sure he's probably got a couple boys locked up somewhere already

Edited by roar #1 : 30/5/2014 01:26:22 PM

BEST. REALITY. SHOW. EVER.

The Pope really wants a boyfriend.

Damn this Pope is pretty cool

Shut up Pole.

No. The roman catholic power cult, which was created by the barbarians that conquered the Italian peninsula and overthrew the ancient Orthodox church there - applied this rule because they wanted a group of priests with no attachments. Priests they could move from location to location with ease.

Celibacy for priests is a roman catholic cult middle age innovation.

The actual authentic Christian Church, Orthodoxy, has always had married priests since the earliest of times. It has always been common knowledge married priests are better suited to a flock of married people with families.

Edited by polemides: 28/5/2014 09:25:58 AM

Her name was Incontinentia. Incontinentia buttocks.

He did have a wife. It says so in the Da Vinci Code.

True. More likely a donkey.

Yeah, but I'm fairly sure it wasn't in reference to a woman :-k

Pretty sure the rule came into existence because Jesus doesn't have a wife in the bible. Nothing in there actually mandates priests can't marry afaik.

It's kinda funny since there was ancient papyrus found recently that roughly translates to Jesus said 'my wife'.

Hopefully this can lead to less sexually repressed old men touching little boys.

As if they aren't all rooting hookers anyway? There have been popes who've die of syphilis.

Pope Francis Says 'Door Is Always Open' to Rethink Priestly Celibacy

Pope Francis says priestly celibacy is up for discussion.

For the first time since his election, the pope said that it is “not a dogma” that members of the clergy must abstain from sex. He made the remark in a chat with reporters on his way back to the Vatican from a historic trip to the Middle East.
“It is a rule of life that I appreciate very much, and I think it is a gift for the church, but since it is not a dogma, the door is always open,” Francis said on Monday.

The Catholic Church has been under pressure to abandon the celibate tradition. Some critics have argued, in the face of widespread sexual abuse of children by priests, that sexual frustration may be partly to blame.

Francis, in some of his harshest language to date on that scandal, said aboard the papal plane that sexual abuse by clerics is “like a satanic Mass.” He will meet with abuse victims next month at the Vatican.

“We must go ahead with zero tolerance,” he said on the plane.

Priestly celibacy is a tradition dating 1,000 years, but it is not considered dogma, or unchangeable. Priests can marry in the Anglican and some other Protestant churches, and in the Orthodox Church.

Francis made similar remarks about celibacy when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires. After his elevation to pope, his secretary of state said in September that celibacy “is not an institution.”

The pope has sought to change the direction of the church, urging a focus less on culture-war issues like abortion and gay marriage and more on pastoral outreach and helping the poor.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-francis-says-door-always-open-rethink-priestly-celibacy-n115136