There is a total of 412,236 catholic priests in the world. According to statistics, one in 20 Catholic priests is a child sex abuser, making 20,611 of the 412,236 priests a child sex abuser. This abuse is believed to be caused by loneliness.
If you ask all of the people in the world, many of them would agree that family is the most important aspect in life. Priests still have a family, they still have parents and siblings, although they'll never get to experience how it feels to have a wife/ partner and child of their own. They'll never know how it feels to be a father or husband to a family. They can only ever imagine.
Loneliness is one of the most painful of all human conditions because it has the potential to disable and limit an individuals soul.
Adults in every life stage have difficulty serving the Lord when powerful wounds of loneliness burn within their hearts. As a result, many people will go to great lengths to deny that they have struggled with this type of emotional pain. This may also be true for a priest who doesn't realise that their pain may be caused by loneliness.
Proverbs 18:22 He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.
Matthew 19:4-6 4 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' 5 and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' ? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
These bible references demonstrate the importance of a man having a wife. Priests deserve to be treated equally to the rest of the world. They should at least be free to choose.
If you ask all of the people in the world, many of them would agree that family is the most important aspect in life. Priests still have a family, they still have parents and siblings, although they'll never get to experience how it feels to have a wife/ partner and child of their own. They'll never know how it feels to be a father or husband to a family. They can only ever imagine.
Loneliness is one of the most painful of all human conditions because it has the potential to disable and limit an individuals soul.
Adults in every life stage have difficulty serving the Lord when powerful wounds of loneliness burn within their hearts. As a result, many people will go to great lengths to deny that they have struggled with this type of emotional pain. This may also be true for a priest who doesn't realise that their pain may be caused by loneliness.
Proverbs 18:22 He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.
Matthew 19:4-6 4 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,' 5 and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' ? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
These bible references demonstrate the importance of a man having a wife. Priests deserve to be treated equally to the rest of the world. They should at least be free to choose.