It was reported in yesterday's newspapers that a Catholic priest in the archdiocese of Birmingham had resigned from priesthood so as to marry a woman.
The retired priest, Fr Philip Gay, has been replaced in the parish of St Thomas More by Fr Stephen Day, who will arrive this week in hie new parish with his wife and three children.
Stephen Day is a former Anglican priest.
No doubt the theologians will offer a speak that 'explains' it all, just as the 'ruling classes' explained to the men in the trenches 100 years ago why they should kill one another.
A funny old world.
But it's not funny at all.
Young men studying for priesthood, at least in the past, were told celibacy had eschatological signs and allowed men more time to dedicate to their work.
The second point is certainly not true. Custom and practice points to a completely different reality. And how do the 'theologians' know anything about 'eschatological signs'?
Control, power, prestige, self-importance.
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