Pope wanted priests 'to have sex’

Last Updated: Monday, February 07, 2011, 12:45

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Melbourne: Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, had as a young priest, signed a memorandum suggesting Vatican to relax celibacy rules.

He reportedly thought it would attract more people to become priests.

According to AdelaideNow, Father Brian Lucas, general secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, said there was a range of opinions on the matter.

He said the present mind of the Vatican was to keep the current practice, despite a perceived shortage of priests.

"Shortage is a relative term,” news.com.au quoted Father Lucas as saying.

"The discipline and practice of celibacy would be an obstacle for some. Others see it as important," he said.

In a similar tone, Father Dean Marin, director of vocations for the Adelaide Archdiocese, said the priesthood was a way of life.

“By remaining celibate, the priest witnesses to the possibility of living totally for God,” he said.

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First Published: Monday, February 07, 2011, 12:45

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BRIJ - NEWYORK
COME DOWN TO LONDON OR NEWYORK YOU WILL SEE WHAT IS CASTISM AND COLORISM IN CHURCHES DON,T BRAG SOMETHING FOR THE SAKE OF TALKING,THESE PROBLEMS EXIST IN EVERY RELIGION,CONVERSION IS NO SOLUTION FOR ANY THING WHO EVER YOU ARE JUST TRY DO YOUR BEST WITHIN.

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DJ - USA
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Here it goes again. Christians and their puppets like you come to India and start bashing its religion. You went to South America and destroyed everything that culture had held dear for thousands of years in order to convert them. Who cares what Jesus said. He may not even have existed. But you and people like you, try to ridicule other religions. Didn`t Christians burn women alive for one thousand years? Didn`t you guys started unbelievable torture in form of Inquisition? Didn`t you guys start the Crusades and killed thousands of people in Middle East? By
what moral value, a Christian, even dare questioning the longest running, the most peaceful religion in the world? Try preaching your fake message in any Islamic country and see how you fare.
Abortions, Go teach your European masters about that. They have abortions too. Really, I feel sorry for converted idiots like you

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rishi - chennai
Dear SA ,

When you have to abuse any religion start tallking about its minus points.For hinduism it is casteism.

I dont feel that casteism is an evil.

It is good way to bind the society to work.Even in offices we have clerks and managers.

a manager is high and a clerk is low for various reasons.

The kids of a manager never marry the kids of a clerk and the prospect of marriage between maNAGERS KID AND A CLERKS KID IS ZERO.

tHE CLERK HAS A PROBLEM with him being a clerk while manager is a manger.but it is like that.

Those who fell into lower caste shud understand that the sociao political condition when castes were framed . the castes whose millitary might was better become upper and whose millitary might was weak became lower.i invite you for a debate. you cannot abuse hinduism for casteism.Casteism tell about which communty has been lower in social strata over time due to various political reasons. brahmins/rajput remain higher because they were politically victorious always. why to blame hinduism for that.i have corrected several one will correct you also.come forward for a debate

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Cung Vo - USA
Ratzinger only worry about the shortage of priest but not a moral priest.

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Volric - Goa.India
In reply to all the anti-christian remarks for this post.
1.We are all humans.And so are priests.If you expect priests to behave like Gods then please be one yourself first.Are you pure that you have committed no sin?Do not be a hypocrite.
Let anyone who has committed no sin throw the first stone at priests
2.Reputed institutions in India are run by Christians.Did they only take Christians in?Take a look at the best schools in Mumbai.
Did they not open their doors to other religions?
If the missionaries are here its only because your corrupt and inefficient government failed to provide to the needs of your people.
And to which religion do most of your central and state government personal belong to?Are they also christian missionaries?
3.You want Christians to leave.Is it because you want the poor to get poorer.The same poor that the missionaries try to uplift?
Christians dont leave what they have started.
Maybe you do.
4.Mr DJ,as someone rightly mentioned ,Jesus did not preach a new religion.
You need to get your understanding right.As your vision seems flawed.
5.Some of my Hindu brethren have given enriching testimonies here.So I need not say more.And I thank them.
Please enlighten yourselves and cure yourselves from your spiritual blindness before saying something against Christians.

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SA - Delhi
Hi DJ

You have not a single Idea about the christianity. Jesus never started a religion, But only shown a path and lessons. People and the Pupil started to call this new path as Christianity. There should not be any comaprison b/w religions. There are many things which are subject of Shame in Hinduism.
1. Even today there are more than 100 castes in Hinduism, Many caste are discarded and insulted from thousands year. Even today people in Hinduism are not ready to accept a person from other Caste.
2. Are you ready to make marriage with Lower caste person for yourself or for your sister.
3.Might be you but majority is still Sick.
4.30,00,000 abortion is done in India by Hindus( Now Muslims as well) to save Dowry. see the male to female ratio in India (See religion wise as well)
5.Main reson of conversion is this Castism only.
6. How many (Poor)Brahman and Rajput have you seen are converted.I think negligible.
7. Poor SC/ST get converted because they have nothing to save, neither money nor respect.
8. jesus will accept Hinduism, Which Caste? and will that caste is ready to accept person from other religion?
Find answers dear
5.

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DJ - USA
Christian leaders are the most corrupt people both morally and philosophically. Whatever good things Jesus might have taught, they failed to follow. If they want to survive as a meaningful religion like Hinduism has over 4 thousand years, they need to stop their idiotic ways and start respecting other ancient religions. If Jesus had known of Hinduism, he would have not preached of new religion but become a Hindu

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Bharti - Mangalore
Food, clothing,Sex is very basic for a balanced human being. If these basics are denied, he/she will find alternate ways to satisfy his/her urge. No wonder why majority of Christian Fathers are homosexuals or had illicit sex that have been regularly coming out in various media around the world.

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rajan ganesh - tamilnadu
Rajni, I read your crass comments and burst into peels of laughter. What a sick mind you are! I too studied in an institution run by Christians, I can say for sure that there was not even a single case of conversion. If I am occupying a high position in my motherland it is solely because of the education imparted by the priests. Rajni, you will never come up in your live if you conitue your senseless tirade against the most law-abiding citizens of the country. Indian Christians need not go to Europe or to any other foreign country to eke out a living. By levelling calumnies against christians in india you behave like a pakistani. To hell with you, you dirty gutter snipe