QUOTATION: Priestly Celibacy

If you lose sight of the supernatural, you will never understand why there should be a celibate clergy.

--Alice Von Hildebrand

QUOTATION: Celibacy

The Church asks her priests and nuns to surrender even the lawful pleasures of the flesh, not because she does not want them to love, but because she wants them to love better.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, The Seven Capital Sins

QUOTATION: Homosexuality and the Priesthood

Homosexuality is incompatible with the priestly vocation. Otherwise, celibacy itself would lose its meaning as a renunciation.

--Pope Benedict XVI, Light of the World, 2010

QUOTATION: Celibacy

Celibacy is always, shall we say, an affront to what man normally thinks. It is something that can only be done, and is only credible, if there is a God and if celibacy is my doorway into the Kingdom of God. In this sense , celibacy is a special kind of sign. The scandal that it provokes consists precisely in the fact that there are people who believe these things.

--Pope Benedict XVI, Light of the World, 2010