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Thread #110504   Message #2320586
Posted By: GUEST,lox
20-Apr-08 - 07:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Pope on pedophile priests
Subject: RE: BS: Pope on pedophile priests
I doubt that the catholic church will change it's position on celibacy at all.

Their view will in all probability continue to be that while times change, God's will remains the same and that changing times are a personal challenge.

Sex is believed by the church to be something legitimized by marriage and they are unlikely to change that view because of alleged increased promiscuity amongst people in general.

I say alleged as I don't agree with the view that todays generation are any more or less immoral/liberated (depending on your value judgement) than any previous generation, with the exception of a brief interlude of restraint around the beginning of thhe 20th century in the upper classes of England apparently.

There's been porn, prostitution, orgy's, fetish's, homosexuality etc etc etc going back thousands of years and the catholic church is unlikely to be intimidated by todays critics any more than it has been in the past.