Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.
There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.
Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.
As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the same author.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.