In Genesis 2, God says, referring to Adam, "It is not good that the man should be alone." In Matt. 19:5 Jesus said, "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?" Leave it to the Catholic Church to countermand both the Father and the Son just as they have done in Matthew 18 where Jesus uses his harshest language to describe the fate of child abusers. Then again in Matt: 23: 9 where Jesus says: "And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven." Isn't it about time someone read this passage to the "Holy Father"? Hubris?
Much has been written about the need human beings have for intimacy. Studies have found that human babies needed physical and emotional contact in order to thrive. The operative word here is thrive. More than that, recent studies prove the need for intimacy continues into adulthood and those who are not afforded intimacy generally turn to addictions of all sorts. God instilled in man and woman the need for intimacy. The only organization that has refused to recognize this concept is the Roman Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church came to grips with it a long time ago.
The lack of intimacy created by the unfounded and unproven beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church about celibacy has created a unique brand of both hetero and homosexuality. The clerics that rule the church have created an institution of men and women, who because of their vows, can only indulge in unfulfilled sex. Whether with one another, one night stands, prostitutes, sexual abuse of children, adults, or pornography; they are all classic symptoms of those who lack intimacy in their lives. Contrary to what the church would have us believe, being married to the church doesn't fill that void. God put two sexes on the earth so man and woman would fulfill each other. Louise Hagget's Bingo Report 10 sites loneliness as the primary reason for breaking vows and what is loneliness but the lack of intimacy.
A prominent psychiatrist who worked for the church had this to say:
In fact, statements by Dr. Jay Feierman support a link between sexual repression and pedophilia. As a psychiatrist who has met with hundreds of pedophilic priests at a Catholic treatment center in New Mexico, Feierman is in a position to recognize the connection.
Feierman says celibacy is not "a natural state for humans to be in." Pointing to the celibacy requirement as a cause of clergy abuse of children, he explains: "If you tell a man that he's not allowed to have particular friends, he's not allowed to be affectionate, he's not allowed to be in love, he's not allowed to be a sexual being, you shouldn't be surprised at anything that happens."11
"You shouldn't be surprised at anything that happens" and the RCC isn't, because it is the oldest continuous enclave for hetero and homosexual men seeking all forms of self gratifying sex. There is no other institution in the world with a longer, well documented, continuous history of the sexual abuse of children than the RCC. Their own records stand in testimony to this fact.
In either hetero or homosexual relationships where there is intimacy or the expectation of it, there is a commitment. A homosexual couple raising a child would be just as outraged at having their son or daughter defiled by a priest as would a heterosexual couple. Why, because they have what priests lack, a commitment, intimacy and love. By their very nature, human intimacy and a priest's commitment to his vows are mutually exclusive. Therefore attempts to seek intimacy through sexual gratification always fall short leaving the sex unfulfilled and the priest unfulfilled.
This failure, on a grand scale, to adhere to celibacy mandated that a rationale be concocted to excuse breaking the vow. Celibacy itself became one of the chief rationales; the excuse used for allowing exceptions. "Oh, you a good priest and it is so hard to keep your vows; say your confession and try not to do it again." The biggest coup in history for the hierarchy was the laity swallowing it hook, line and sinker. How many Catholics have said, "A priest is entitled to break a vow once in a while, after all they are only human." Cardinal George gave us the best known public example of this type of exemption in this quote:
Cardinal George said, ''There is a difference between a moral monster like Geoghan,'' who preys in serial fashion, and an individual who, ''perhaps under the influence of alcohol,'' engages in inappropriate behavior with ''a 16- or 17-year-old young woman who returns his affections."12
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