Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent.
For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused - After all, we have monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, celibacy, and so on. In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.
Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.
Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. . . . But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.
Italian women are some of the most beautiful in the world. This is why the Vatican is in Italy. If a man can walk across Italy and retain his celibacy, he's got what it takes to be a priest - or an interior decorator.
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.
Celibacy is exhausting.
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.