{"id":2253,"date":"2010-07-02T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2012-05-30T20:08:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T20:08:52","slug":"the-great-scandal-of-priestly-celibacy-the-anchor-july-2-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-great-scandal-of-priestly-celibacy-the-anchor-july-2-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Scandal of Priestly Celibacy, The Anchor, July 2, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. Roger J. Landry
\nThe Anchor<\/em>
\nEditorial
\nJuly 2, 2010<\/p>\n

Recently the importance of priestly celibacy in the Church has been questioned from different quarters. Some, influenced by implicit Freudian premises, have suggested that priestly celibacy is a contributing factor to the clergy sexual abuse crisis, although such critics always fail to explain how the marriage of a priest to an adult woman will resolve the issue of priests acting out on perverted attractions to teenage boys (in 4 out of 5 abuse cases) or to pre-pubescent children (in one out of ten). Others have raised doubts about the prudence of maintaining the discipline of priestly celibacy when there is a shortage, in many parts of the world, of men responding to God\u2019s call to commit their lives to him and his Church as priests. Even a highly influential European cardinal, responding, it seems, to repeated calls in his country for optional sacerdotal celibacy, said that the subject should be examined anew.<\/p>\n

As the Year for Priests was coming to a close, Pope Benedict responded to these questions coming from different segments of the Catholic world. His response took place within a June 10 nighttime question-and-answer session with priests in St. Peter\u2019s Square. A Slovakian priest, a missionary in Russia who said he was \u201cdisoriented in reading the many worldly criticisms of this gift\u201d of priestly celibacy, asked the Pope \u201cto enlighten us about the profundity and the authentic meaning of ecclesiastical celibacy.\u201d Pope Benedict gladly took up the challenge. In doing so, he stressed how and why priestly celibacy is needed now more than ever. His thoughts about the beauty, meaning, purpose and importance of priestly celibacy in the Church and world today should be pondered by every Catholic.<\/p>\n

Speaking spontaneously, the Pope began with a brief introduction about the priesthood, inaugurated by Christ and strengthened by the Eucharist, which he called the \u201cpermanent and vital foundation\u201d of celibacy. To say that the priest celebrates the Eucharist in persona Christi (\u201cin the person of Christ\u201d), Benedict said, means that priests \u201cspeak in the \u2018I\u2019 of Christ. Christ \u2018pulls us into himself\u2019 and permits us to unite ourselves \u2026 with his \u2018I.\u2019 \u2026 In this way he really is always the one priest, and nonetheless very much present in the world, because he \u2018pulls\u2019 us into himself, and so makes present his priestly mission. \u2026 This unification of his \u2018I\u2019 with our own implies that we are also \u2018pulled\u2019 into his reality as the Risen One, we advance toward the full life of the resurrection \u2026 in which we are already beyond marriage\u201d (cf. Mt. 22:23 \u201332).<\/p>\n

This is the ground of priestly celibacy, the pope said. It is an \u201canticipation\u201d of heaven in which \u201cwe transcend this time and go forward, and so we \u2018pull\u2019 ourselves and our time toward the world of the resurrection, toward the newness of Christ, toward the new and true life. Celibacy is an anticipation made possible by the grace of the Lord who \u2018pulls\u2019 us to himself, toward the world of the resurrection; he invites us always anew to transcend ourselves, this present, toward the true present of the future, which becomes present today.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has long been said in the Church that one of the aspects of priestly celibacy and the vowed celibate chastity of those in religious life that it is an \u201ceschatological sign,\u201d something that points to the next life. Pope Benedict is saying that it\u2019s more than a sign, but an eschatological reality, an resurrected life, in the midst of the world. In priestly celibacy, the choice for heaven, for God, becomes concretized and stands as a challenge to those who choose to set their horizons solely on worldly aims. This, the Holy Father says, is a \u201cvery important point,\u201d because priestly celibacy challenges one of the most fundamental postulates of secularist modernity.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne big problem of Christianity in today’s world,\u201d the pope clarified, \u201cis that God’s future is no longer considered, and the now of this world alone seems sufficient. We want to have only this world, to live only in this world. So we close the doors to the true greatness of our existence. The meaning of celibacy as an anticipation of the future is precisely to open these doors, to make the world bigger, to show the reality of the future that must be lived by us as already present, to live, therefore, in a testimony of faith: we really believe that God exists, that God is part of my life, that I can base my life on Christ, on the future life.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that such testimony provokes \u201cworldly criticisms.\u201d For the \u201cagnostic world, the world in which God has no place,\u201d he said, \u201ccelibacy is a great scandal because it shows precisely that God is considered and lived as a reality. With the eschatological life of celibacy, the future world of God enters into the realities of our time.\u201d Celibacy is a \u201cgreat scandal\u201d precisely because it challenges the dominant cultural mentality \u2014 which exists even among many in the Church \u2014 that rejects the Christian premise that God must be the \u201cpearl of great price,\u201d the \u201cone thing necessary,\u201d the \u201cchosen portion,\u201d \u201ccup\u201d and \u201cinheritance\u201d of human beings (Mt 13:46; Lk 10:42; Ps 16:5).<\/p>\n

The Holy Father was expanding here on a point he first expressed in a 2006 pre-Christmas address to the members of the Roman Curia, when he said that celibacy \u201ccan only be understood and lived\u201d if it is based on this total option for loving union with Christ as the defining reality of one\u2019s existence. \u201cThe true foundation of celibacy can be contained in the phrase: ‘Dominus pars’ \u2013 You are my portion. It can only be theocentric. It cannot mean being deprived of love, but must mean letting oneself be consumed by passion for God and subsequently, thanks to a more intimate way of being with him, to serve men and women, too.\u201d\u00a0 He continued in that 2006 address, \u201cOur world, which has become totally positivistic, in which God appears at best as a hypothesis but not as a concrete reality, needs to rest on God in the most concrete and radical way possible. It needs a witness to God that lies in the decision to welcome God as a land where one finds one’s own existence.\u201d That witness is priestly celibacy and consecrated virginity for the sake of Christ in his kingdom \u2014 and that\u2019s why, he said, \u201ccelibacy is so important today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Priestly celibacy is crucial today for another reason, the Pope added on June 10. Such a priestly commitment reinforces and undergirds the commitment of marriage. He noted that the \u201cincreasingly fashionable\u201d option of so many in the world not to get married\u201d is something \u201ctotally, fundamentally different from celibacy, because not getting married is based on the desire to live only for oneself, not to accept any definitive bond, to have life at every moment in full autonomy, to decide at every moment what to do, what to take from life; and therefore a \u2018no\u2019 to commitment, a \u2018no\u2019 to definitiveness, a having life only for oneself. Celibacy is precisely the opposite: it is a definitive \u2018yes,\u2019 it is allowing ourselves to be taken in hand by God, giving ourselves into the hands of the Lord, into his \u2018I,\u2019 and therefore it is an act of fidelity and trust, an act that the fidelity of marriage also supposes. It is the exact opposite of this \u2018no,\u2019 of this autonomy that does not want to be obligated, that does not want to enter into a bond. It is precisely the definitive \u2018yes\u2019 that supposes, that confirms the definitive \u2018yes\u2019 of marriage \u2026\u00a0 with its \u2018yes\u2019 to the future world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Priestly celibacy, in sum, makes present \u201cthis scandal of a faith that bases all of existence upon God \u2026\u00a0 a great scandal, which the world does not want to see.\u201d It is a \u201cgreat sign of faith, of the presence of God in the world.\u201d That\u2019s why, in the midst of the \u201cscandals of our insufficiencies, of our sins,\u201d this \u201ctrue and great scandal\u201d of priestly celibacy is all the more important \u2014 and is here to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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