Tragédia celibátu - Mŕtva manželka – Baláž Peter Lucian (2018)

Celibacy as a condition for the priesthood has been a festering wound in the Roman Catholic Church for eight centuries, which ignores the biblical statement that a bishop must be the husband of one wife. Healing this wound means reordaining married men. The tragedy of celibacy – a dead wife contains not only historical and biblical facts, theological contradictions in contemporary views on sexuality, but also profiles of church fathers and teachers that are deliberately silenced. What factors lie behind the expulsion of married men from the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church? Why has the Church stopped ordaining fathers and husbands as priests when Jesus Christ called married men as apostles? Why does the Greek Catholic Church not have pedophilia scandals? What does it mean to serve God with an undivided heart? What did the church fathers teach about sexuality? Who influenced them? From Plato's body is the grave of the soul to Wojtyła's body is a sacrament of salvation, the Church has come a long way, yet an important step has still not been taken. There are much deeper reasons for the ordination of married men than just a lack of priests. The morbidity of the Roman Catholic Church lies in the fact that the death of a wife is the gateway to the priesthood. Perhaps it has never been more necessary for the Church to stand up for marriage and family than in the age of genderism. The aim of this publication is…