Celibato o controlar lo más privado de una persona: su vida sexual

Los rabinos pueden casarse, los pastores protestantes también, y es más, la Iglesia Católica ordena frecuentemente a hombres casados, especialmente en Europa del Este. Pero... porqué la Iglesia Católica, y en especial este Papa, está cerrada a debatir el tema del celibato sacerdotal?
Una razón poderosa: al controlar la vida sexual de una persona se le controla la mente. Toda buena dictadura lo sabe y lo aplica. No es coincidencia que la Iglesia al igual que las teocracias islámicas de Arabia Saudita o Irán, que la Alemania Nazi, que la Cuba de Castro y la China comunista persigan contanto afán la pornogrfía y a los homosexuales. Todo lo que suponga salirse de la "norma" debe ser perseguido.

Monseñor Harry J. Byrne ya tiene más de 80 años y está retirado. Sin embargo ahora al final de sus días voltea hacia atrás, y reflexiona como 59 años de celibato no fueron realmente algo que surviera de algo, sino más bien se convirtieran en un estorbo.

"Rather than an enhancement, celibacy has been more of a distraction. Unmarried, the priest ideally can give more of himself and his time to ministry, but it does not always work out that way. Compensations easily insinuate themselves-golf, tennis, bridge, social activities, hobbies-and make disproportionate demands on the time and energy said to derive from celibacy. Without a high-octane spiritual life, other less acceptable activities can come into play: drinking, race tracks, casinos. As a form of asceticism, celibacy’s heroic demands are more at home with a hermit in the desert or a monk in a monastery than with a priest ministering in today’s highly charged sexual atmosphere..."

"... As the ambit of Christian freedom is increasingly felt today, and with Vatican II’s more positive attitude toward marriage, there has been an abandonment of ministry by thousands of priests, mostly for marriage. Recently, substantial numbers of priests of the dioceses of Milwaukee, New Ulm, and Albany have petitioned the U.S. bishops to undertake a study of optional celibacy. Many bishops at the 1998 Synods for Asia and for Oceania and at other synods have requested permission to ordain married men. The synod secretariat carefully screened out these requests from the propositions submitted to the pope. The recent report of the U.S. bishops’ National Review Board, while disclaiming a causal relationship between celibacy and sexual-abuse, nevertheless called for a study of other considerations, such as immoral relationships with adult men and women on the part of some priests, the extent of which is not known. Yet in the face of all this, together with the priest and vocation shortages, a disproportionate homosexual presence in our clergy, and the possible relation of celibacy to the scandal and other aberrations, John Paul II continues to ban any discussion or study of mandated clerical celibacy..."

".. younger men considering priesthood and those in their early years of ministry may not find sufficient reason or support to undertake or continue the steep commitment celibacy entails. Furthermore, to make celibacy a strict condition for priestly ministry subjects the individual to a form of institutional control that is nearly total. To have power over a person’s sex life is to have remarkable control of that person. It not only touches his private life but shapes his social and public life as well, and, in today’s church, that includes one’s employment, compensation, and residence..."

Pregunta: ¿la Iglesia quiere esclavos o sacerdotes? La verdad pronto se sabrá, y espero que a muchos haga libres. Esta hermoso testimonio se puede leer en Commonweal, la principal revista católica laica de Estados Unidos.