i love and i serve
My early experiences in life
sometimes make me wish I were
already married. The thought of
coming home to/with a loving
wife and kids racing to my feet
to undo my shoe laces, and talk about their school and play that
day, as they sit on my lap,
makes me wish for it even more.
But that was quite a long time
ago, before I realized that there
are other things that come with marriage (nowadays), like pre-
nuptials and pedicure and
responsibility, oh and more
responsibility. I do not know
where I stand now, but that is
for another day. Marriage, in its basic sense, is a good thing and
that is why Archbishop Milingo is
my hero. He defied the punitive
church doctrines, and rightfully
so, to marry a woman he loves. According to the doctrines of
the Good Book, a man leaves his
father and mother and seeks a
woman (of noble character) and
finds true love and settles down
and the two become one, and they then receive children as a
blessing from above. How
wonderful! But the doctrine of
the Catholic Church actually
prohibits priests from getting
married, and this is not good. However, celibacy, only if one is
absolutely sure of their inner
strength, self-control and
chastity, is even advised in the
Bible. Nevertheless, it is not
good for a man to burn with passion, rather, it is good for
such man to get married and
have a wife, Paul counsels, and I
agree. And repeated sexual
offences and priests relinquishing
their services en masse have only strengthened the view
point that even the priests are
"sensual" and desire human
pleasures like the others. The worst part is, according to
recent happenings in the Church,
a priest is without doubt to be
excommunicated from the church
if he decides to marry. However,
the same priests if accused of sexual impropriety (read rape
and sodomy) are also
guaranteed of unfailing
protection and categorical
defense from the church powers
that be. What pretense? What double-standards? According to
Milingo’ s website, 150 000 priests have been discontinued
from serving the church and
dedicating their service to the
faithful, simply because they
decided to don the ring. Ironical?
Read on. The same papacy that actually
denounces marriage for the
Catholic clergy has had its fair
share of controversy and
double-speak in the past.
Several popes were fathers and sired a whole bandwagon of
inglorious bastards that they
later ordained to cardinalship
and even to the papacy. Pope
Anastasius (399-401) sired Pope
Innocent I (401-417), Pope Hormisday (514-523) sired Pope
Silverius (536-537) and Pope
Sergius II (904-911) sired Pope
John XI (931-935)…and the list goes on and on. There was even
a pope who was murdered by a
jealous husband who found the
so-called “holy” father having sex with his wife (Pope John XII).
All these facts are according to
the Roman Observer, by the
way. So why force and subject
men, with eyes, blood and
hormones, to celibacy even when their desire for sexual intimacy,
companionship and marriage is
quite conspicuous and universal?
Yet the same papacy has had
its own fair share of enjoying
the benefits of marriage that the same priests now yearn for. Then another intriguing question
I ask myself is the whole
“Confessions” thing. Forgive me father for I have sinned? Really?
I find it ridiculous to repent to
another mortal, susceptible to
the same temptations and sin as
the rest of the confessors are.
Borrowing heavily from Shylock’ s speech in Act I Scene III, I ask: Have the priests not
human eyes? Have the priests
not human hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections,
passions; fed with the same
food, hurt by the same weapons, subject to the same
diseases, healed by the same
means, warmed by the same
women as the rest of the men
are? If you prick priests, do
they not bleed, if women tempt them, do they not fall like the
rest of the “lesser mortals” do? If priests are like the
married men in the rest, they
sure will resemble married men
in being sensual beings. If a
priest wrongs the church, what
is his humility? Rejection from the church? If the papacy
wrongs the church, what should
his sufferance be, by the church
doctrines? Acceptance? The
same villainy the papacy has
taught the priests, they are now executing, and it is going
down hard on the church. I believe that being single in
today’ s world is getting more and more difficult. Or perhaps,
being sexually chaste in a world
full of bodily and sensual
exposure is getting even harder
for the normal man and for the
priest too? I think so. 2000 years ago, the temptation would
be less, but the blood and
hormones would still be present
and “surviving” the tough seminaries or priesthood would
be less challenging, I suppose.
But in a world where there is
no difference between a watch
and a blouse, everyone is finding
it hard, honestly. And I speak from a normal man’ s perspective. What of a priest
who is locked up in a small room
with the same temptresses in
the name of confession? I would
question the rationale of
forbidding priests from marriage, pre-exposing them to the same
situations as the rest of the
men and expecting them to be
chaste and upright? Please.
There are brilliant cases of
married servants of God in the Good Book and this whole idea
of celibacy in a time where even
marriage is a challenge is idiotic,
unrealistic and uncouth. Going
into the cesspool of homosexual
priests is nauseous and with that, I rest my obvious case. "There is a thin line between
truth and fiction. This is that
line."
sometimes make me wish I were
already married. The thought of
coming home to/with a loving
wife and kids racing to my feet
to undo my shoe laces, and talk about their school and play that
day, as they sit on my lap,
makes me wish for it even more.
But that was quite a long time
ago, before I realized that there
are other things that come with marriage (nowadays), like pre-
nuptials and pedicure and
responsibility, oh and more
responsibility. I do not know
where I stand now, but that is
for another day. Marriage, in its basic sense, is a good thing and
that is why Archbishop Milingo is
my hero. He defied the punitive
church doctrines, and rightfully
so, to marry a woman he loves. According to the doctrines of
the Good Book, a man leaves his
father and mother and seeks a
woman (of noble character) and
finds true love and settles down
and the two become one, and they then receive children as a
blessing from above. How
wonderful! But the doctrine of
the Catholic Church actually
prohibits priests from getting
married, and this is not good. However, celibacy, only if one is
absolutely sure of their inner
strength, self-control and
chastity, is even advised in the
Bible. Nevertheless, it is not
good for a man to burn with passion, rather, it is good for
such man to get married and
have a wife, Paul counsels, and I
agree. And repeated sexual
offences and priests relinquishing
their services en masse have only strengthened the view
point that even the priests are
"sensual" and desire human
pleasures like the others. The worst part is, according to
recent happenings in the Church,
a priest is without doubt to be
excommunicated from the church
if he decides to marry. However,
the same priests if accused of sexual impropriety (read rape
and sodomy) are also
guaranteed of unfailing
protection and categorical
defense from the church powers
that be. What pretense? What double-standards? According to
Milingo’ s website, 150 000 priests have been discontinued
from serving the church and
dedicating their service to the
faithful, simply because they
decided to don the ring. Ironical?
Read on. The same papacy that actually
denounces marriage for the
Catholic clergy has had its fair
share of controversy and
double-speak in the past.
Several popes were fathers and sired a whole bandwagon of
inglorious bastards that they
later ordained to cardinalship
and even to the papacy. Pope
Anastasius (399-401) sired Pope
Innocent I (401-417), Pope Hormisday (514-523) sired Pope
Silverius (536-537) and Pope
Sergius II (904-911) sired Pope
John XI (931-935)…and the list goes on and on. There was even
a pope who was murdered by a
jealous husband who found the
so-called “holy” father having sex with his wife (Pope John XII).
All these facts are according to
the Roman Observer, by the
way. So why force and subject
men, with eyes, blood and
hormones, to celibacy even when their desire for sexual intimacy,
companionship and marriage is
quite conspicuous and universal?
Yet the same papacy has had
its own fair share of enjoying
the benefits of marriage that the same priests now yearn for. Then another intriguing question
I ask myself is the whole
“Confessions” thing. Forgive me father for I have sinned? Really?
I find it ridiculous to repent to
another mortal, susceptible to
the same temptations and sin as
the rest of the confessors are.
Borrowing heavily from Shylock’ s speech in Act I Scene III, I ask: Have the priests not
human eyes? Have the priests
not human hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections,
passions; fed with the same
food, hurt by the same weapons, subject to the same
diseases, healed by the same
means, warmed by the same
women as the rest of the men
are? If you prick priests, do
they not bleed, if women tempt them, do they not fall like the
rest of the “lesser mortals” do? If priests are like the
married men in the rest, they
sure will resemble married men
in being sensual beings. If a
priest wrongs the church, what
is his humility? Rejection from the church? If the papacy
wrongs the church, what should
his sufferance be, by the church
doctrines? Acceptance? The
same villainy the papacy has
taught the priests, they are now executing, and it is going
down hard on the church. I believe that being single in
today’ s world is getting more and more difficult. Or perhaps,
being sexually chaste in a world
full of bodily and sensual
exposure is getting even harder
for the normal man and for the
priest too? I think so. 2000 years ago, the temptation would
be less, but the blood and
hormones would still be present
and “surviving” the tough seminaries or priesthood would
be less challenging, I suppose.
But in a world where there is
no difference between a watch
and a blouse, everyone is finding
it hard, honestly. And I speak from a normal man’ s perspective. What of a priest
who is locked up in a small room
with the same temptresses in
the name of confession? I would
question the rationale of
forbidding priests from marriage, pre-exposing them to the same
situations as the rest of the
men and expecting them to be
chaste and upright? Please.
There are brilliant cases of
married servants of God in the Good Book and this whole idea
of celibacy in a time where even
marriage is a challenge is idiotic,
unrealistic and uncouth. Going
into the cesspool of homosexual
priests is nauseous and with that, I rest my obvious case. "There is a thin line between
truth and fiction. This is that
line."
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