Ok here goes,
At first I was going to leave this thread alone and just make it one of the many that I don't respond to...but...as you see something has made me change my mind. What made me change...a local priest in my area where one of my friends has a 7 year old son at the catholic school where a priest was just removed from his post for molesting a boy now man back in the early 70's.
I know that growing up going to a catholic school and being catholic myself I have thought on many occassions that a certain priest at my grade school was molesting the alter boys, but being young I just let it slide. Once I got to high school and this priest was also a priest at my high school I once again thought it. I do wonder where this priest is now, and I search the paper everyday looking for his name to see if someone man has outed him or not.
I didn't attend mass today being Easter well because I just couldn't. Also I feel that priest nor nuns should have to take a vow of celibacy. Men and Women were put on this earth to pro-create correct...well how can that be done if people have a vow of celibacy? I agree with Ideal08 in that lifting the celibacy rule won't change a person from being a pedophile, but I do believe that if the rule is lifting then you may find that more people may want to become a priest or a nun. I say this becuase back in the summer of last year commercials use to run all the time showing that men were needed to enter the seminary to become a priest. that said to me that the numbers were/are down. I think the same for the different orders of nunship...(I know that's not a word...but you know what I mean
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Something else I think is priest don't become pedophiles....pedophiles become priest!!
Just my thoughts and opinions