Ordinary priests live like that too. Their lifestyle usually just depends on whether they're secular or in a religious order. But even that doesn't always apply.
Let's bring Jesus and Mary into this too. Would it make them and their acts less holy if they weren't virgins all their lives? I don't think so. It's just sex and reproduction for God's sake.
It's Paul who spewed all that bullshit about being better at what you do when celibate.
"For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am ... I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord. But he who is married cares about the things of the world—how he may please his wife. There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband. And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction."
Idiot. Just cuz he couldn't get any, he had to drag countless others with him.
EDIT - Very relevant comment on the link Jake provided:
Let's bring Jesus and Mary into this too. Would it make them and their acts less holy if they weren't virgins all their lives? I don't think so. It's just sex and reproduction for God's sake.
It's Paul who spewed all that bullshit about being better at what you do when celibate.
"For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am ... I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord. But he who is married cares about the things of the world—how he may please his wife. There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband. And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction."
Idiot. Just cuz he couldn't get any, he had to drag countless others with him.
EDIT - Very relevant comment on the link Jake provided:
Quote:...that includes India, Ireland, Italy, the Philippines, the United States - and, of course, Africa.
Resticted? - A cunning placement of the word. It leads to the phrase "certain negative situations" which suggests that this is a rare, or isolated, phenomenon.
The real story is of unrestricted sexual behaviour in vast territories by large numbers of priests. (The stories of black African priests in Africa violating black nuns have been around for years.) Amazingly, there is no reference to South America where similar practices are well known; and the only mention of bishops is that they must become more aware of these situations.
The solemn Vatican spokesMAN, Father Giulio Albanese, seems to be telling a completely different story - about missionaries under stress in third-world countries; whereas the primary story is about celibate priest-offenders who are natives of the region whose faith-obsessed young women they jubilantly rape in a rage for paternity.
Praise the Lord, and pass the plate for more vocations and more donations. The heroic third-world priests need your faith and money for more children or quicker abortions.
Who will be the first (repentant) priest-rapist UP for canonization? Who will be the first nun canonized for meeting her death on the abortion table in a missionary hospital?
They'll be the news stories worth telling.
