“Celibacy leads to homosexuality.”

The claim that celibacy in the Catholic Church leads to homosexuality is so nonsensical that I feel ashamed even taking it seriously and writing about it.

If I were a celibate priest, why – why would I suddenly find men arousing? Why would a heterosexual man turn into a homosexual one? Since I’m a man, I cannot imagine to ever find men sexually attractive. I could discern who’s attractive and good-looking, and maybe even beautiful – but it is not arousing in any way.

In other words, if I were a priest, any impure thoughts I might have or actions I would perform would involve women. It cannot be any other way. So this I have easily shown to be false.

Then some claim it’s not biblical anyway. Well, it is biblical, since without the New Testament, there would be no basis for celibacy. Indeed, Paul and Jesus praise celibacy.

Now, claiming that they don’t require it means not understanding the Catholic position. They base a lot on traditions and views of the Church fathers – like the Orthodox do too, who are rarely critized for it. And why are the latter not critized, at least by many on the right? Because the countries their Churches are in are usually free of much of the cultural self-hate and vulgarity we find in the West, the home of the Catholic Church.

In other words, if it were reversed—the Catholic Church being that of the East, the Orthodox Church instead part of the West—I’m quite certain that they’d praise the Catholics instead. I don’t like these developments either, in fact I think that, for example, race mixing is psychological, sexual and biological warfare, apart from leading to the destruction of organically-grown peoples and nations. Not much different from what mass rapists like Genghis Khan did.

Another point is that it is a lot easier for a celibate priest to sacrifice his life for another. If St. Maximilian Kolbe had been married with children, he most likely would not have been able to readily give his life.

As Kolbe said:

“For Jesus Christ, I’m prepared to suffer still more.”

“If angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion.”

No one is forced to become a priest. If you don’t want to, don’t become one. Robert Barron apparently battled with the desire or question if he should get married. Of course, celibacy requires constant effort; Augustine, too, said that the battle against lust is a battle that must be won anew each day (Luther references this in his sermon on good works).
This is so because mankind would disappear if it weren’t lust that brought people into the world, but pure reason.

“Celibacy is a bad idea in the modern world”. Short answer: it is irrelevant what the modern world provides or wants or requires. The modern world is a sickness.

Quoting Léon Bloy:

“The only real failure in life is not to be a saint.”

Having written enough already, I’ll end with the usual gómezdávilian wisdom:

The growing difficulty of recruiting priests should embarrass humanity, not disquiet the Church.

The heresy that threatens the Church, in our time, is “worldliness.”

There is no spiritual victory which need not be won anew each day.

That the history of the Church contains sinister chapters and idiotic chapters is obvious, but a manly Catholicism should not make its contrite confession by exalting the modern world.

Let the priest leave stupid occupations to the stupid, for he is not responsible for doubtful progress, but for inexorable agony.