A LETTER TO THE IRISH NEWS BELFAST 18. May 2016
Allison Morrison
writes (in Celibacy in Priesthood a Matter of Public Interest) that it
is time for real debate on celibacy in the Catholic Church. Wouldn’t it be a
good idea then for the Irish News , which, as she says, has behaved
sympathetically on recent occasions, to sponsor and arrange such a public
discussion ? Newspapers do things like that. One of the matters raised would
certainly be that the vast majority of people who give up the prospect of
marriage and a family of their own are not priests or members of religious
orders . They are people who do it to
look after other people, family members
or others who are in need of their care.
It would be most unkind to say of these good people that theirs is an unnatural
life. They are supernaturally generous people.
What could be argued
in such a public discussion though
is whether imposing celibacy on
such good people would be unnatural. That
is a different question and of course the right one.
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