I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.
I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
I try and take the family with me everywhere I can. It's getting harder the more kids I have. But celibacy sucks.
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general Impossible and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.
The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience, and celibacy Are the canonical vices.
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
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