Vatican comment on paedophiles draws gay groups' anger

[mrstickball]

FootballFan said:

mrstickball said:
Still doesn't change the fact that the Catholic church has really awful human beings in their organization.

Maybe when you ban your priests from marrying, they develop awful desires like pedophilia?

I find it oh-so strange that we don't have these vast, world-spanning problems in the protestant church which has nearly the same membership as the Catholic church. Yes, there are pastors that do plenty of stupid things, but its rarely something as heinous as pedophilia. Usually, its consensual sex among adults (either adultery or homosexuality).

Doesn't that defeat the point? If they are married to God why would they need anybody else?

...Maybe they aren't really 'married to God' like they claim to be?

The Bible is pretty explicit in how to deal with marriage to God vs. marriage to people:

1 Corinthians 7:9 (New International Version)

⁹But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

That pretty much sums it up. If you cannot control your physical desires, there is a very simple solution. The Catholic church does not recognize the Biblically-based solution. Protestants as well as the apostles do, which fortunately allows us to have far less scandals of this kind of abhorrent behavior.

There are some people out there that are absolutely designed not to be married, and are perfectly psycologically fine from abstaining from marriage and sex. Jesus references them in Matthew 19:12 as being 'born that way'. However, the Catholic church has perverted that by tying up religious tradition into something that has virtually no place in true Christian living.