Tragédie celibátu - Mrtvá manželka – Baláž Peter Lucian (2018)

Celibacy has been a festering wound of the Roman Catholic Church for eight centuries as a condition of priesthood, ignoring the biblical statement that a bishop should be the husband of one wife. Healing this wound means reordaining married men. The tragedy of celibacy, the 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 purposefully obscured. What factors lie behind the expulsion of married men from the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church? Why did the Church stop 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 'the body is the tomb of the soul' to Wojtyla's 'the body is the sacrament of salvation,' the Church has come a long way, but an important step has yet to be taken. There are much deeper reasons for the ordination of married men than just the shortage 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. There has probably never been a greater need for the Church to stand up for marriage and family than in the age of genderism. The aim of this publication is to highlight...