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Pull one thread – the celibacy requirement for priests, for example – and the whole edifice comes crashing down.
We are no longer told what to do or think by priests or our social superiors.
They were the anchor of society, acting in effect as priests, teachers, and judges.
For example, I often hear from Palestinian priests that, “In this land, we receive many tourists yet very few pilgrims.”
The Turkish state has kept the Halki Seminary, the only institution able to train Orthodox priests, closed since 1971.
Unfortunately, this also makes self-regulation a faith that is very difficult to dispel, because its priests can always claim that its failures result not from theological bankruptcy, but from insufficient orthodoxy.
In particular, the Buddhist priests, who are the guardians of the faith and have wielded much influence in Sri Lanka politics since the mid-1950's, were the least touched by foreign rule.
Yet some Buddhist priests today are inciting hatred and violence.
Holy AbuseNEW YORK – In his remarkable apology to the Catholics of Ireland (most of that country’s population), Pope Benedict XVI explained why he thought sinful priests were tempted to commit sexual acts with children.
As we know, the abuse of children by Catholic priests did not just occur in Ireland, but in many other countries too, something the Pope preferred not to dwell upon.
In more traditional days, not so very long ago, when God reigned supreme and most people still turned to their priests (or ministers, rabbis, etc.) for moral guidance, sexual behavior was often dictated by power.
But hypocrisy gave privileged people, including priests, a certain leeway.
It was no longer all right for men to have mistresses, teachers to have affairs with students, or priests to enjoy the favors of their chambermaids.
Even the Pope would agree that the emancipation of women, and the protection of children, are good things.Indeed, during his time as Cardinal it was part of his job to stop priests fromabusing minors.He does not appear to have been very successful.
Catholics confess to their priests, not to God himself.
No, the problem for sinning priests is that power in democratic societies is no longer as privileged as it once was, and people are less willing to tolerate hypocrisy.
Or if not a solution, an amelioration: the Church could allow priests to marry, or form homosexual relationships with consenting adults.
In Poland, 92% of the population "wait for it " and 85% of Roman Catholic priests support the country’s "return" to Europe.
He opposes civil unions for gay couples, and strongly defends the church’s prohibition of abortion and its ban on women priests.
But first he must reestablish the Catholic Church’s moral authority, which has been badly damaged by the scandal over numerous cases of pedophilia by priests, the Church’s attempts to cover them up,and dubious financial practices, among other problems.
But given the loss of demand for religion, the supply of surplus Polish priests for a pan-European evangelizing effort is unlikely to change things much.
The global economic collapse of 2007-2008 discredited “rational expectations” economics (though its high priests have yet to recognize this) and brought both Keynes and Hayek back into posthumous contention.
No less a figure than Alexander Pushkin wrote in 1836 that “Orthodoxy has always been persecuted by Catholic fanaticism….Their missionaries cursed the Orthodox Church, with hypocrisy and threats tried to recruit into Catholicism not only ordinary people but Orthodox priests as well.”
A discipline long dominated by “high priests” must now adopt a more open mindset.
And just before the European Parliament election in May, Poland was shaken by a documentary exposing pedophilia by Catholic priests, along with a massive coverup by the Church hierarchy, which has close ties to the PiS.
"But if what the priests tell is true, if the poor people in this world become the rich ones in the next!"
"Ah! bosh! the priests!" exclaimed Maheu.
But if the workers desired the fair division of the goods of the earth, they ought at once to put themselves in the hands of the priests, just as on the death of Jesus the poor and the humble grouped themselves around the apostles.
Deliverance would come from the country priests, who would all rise to re-establish the kingdom of Christ, with the help of the poor; and already he seemed to be at their head; he raised his bony form like the chief of a band, a revolutionary of the gospel, his eyes so filled with light that they illuminated the gloomy room.
His old companions were all turning to the politicians; the famous Nihilists who made Europe tremble--sons of village priests, of the lower middle class, of tradesmen--could not rise above the idea of national liberation, and seemed to believe that the world would be delivered--when they had killed their despot.
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