As the house of Windsor slowly begins to crumble from within, the house of St. Peter may be following suit. Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI is back in the spotlight after co-authoring a book reaffirming his views on the need for celibacy among priests. The pro-celibacy book has been a sore spot for the current papal administration, as Pope Francis is considering allowing married men to be ordinated in the Amazon to solve a priest shortage there, according to the Associated Press.
Just so everyone is on the same page here:
two men, who have probably not had sex in the last thirty or more years, are arguing via lengthy essays and secretaries on whether men who do have sex can be priests—but only in the Amazon. Hard to believe it gets stranger from here., which drops next month for anyone who wants to get on the pre-order list, was written by Cardinal Robert Sarah with some chapters written by the retired pope. The premise of the book is a staunch defense of the necessity of celibacy in the priesthood, which Benedict supports.
Yet it wouldn’t be the first time, he tried to get into a hat measuring contest with Francis. In April of 2019, Benedict wrote a 6000-word essay on current church issues, including the ongoing church sex abuse scandal. According tothe secularization of the West, the sexual revolution of the 1960s and more generally, ‘the absence of God.’
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