North of the Shire

Carl Olsen at Ignatius Insight has another great post analyzing an article from Amy Sullivan in Time Magazine on the priestly celibacy “debate.”

Is it just me or does it seem that the most vocal advocates for removing the celibacy requirement for Roman Catholic priests are usually women? I don’t want to be uncharitable but is that because a man that does not primarily want to have sex is an unknown and dangerous quantity for at least some women? Does that make them uneasy because they cannot then know that they have men all figured out? Does it in some way pique them as women that they basically have nothing to offer such a man because he sees the Church as a higher order than womankind as such?

Does that passage from St. Paul irritate them as well where he says that a married man is concerned with the things of the world, how he can please his wife, whereas a celibate man can concern himself only with the things of God, and how to please him?

I’m just asking.