re: #179 Dark_Falcon

Abuses are always a risk. But when it was put into place, celibacy was a reasonable answer to the problem posed by the fact that the clergy had so many later sons of nobles. Some parishes and bishopates were becoming hereditary within certain families, and that would have been the ruin of the Catholic Church had it not been prevented.

But if this policy doesn’t change, the Church will continue to slide into oblivion. Over the Holidays, someone pointed this out to me.. “You never see a Hearse pulling a U-Haul trailer do ya? to point out that you can’t take it with you.

With their celibacy policy for Priests the church is trying to hold on to it’s earthly possessions, but in doing so, they sow the seeds of their own destruction.