Parenting Quote by Julia Spencer-Fleming

“The Catholic alpha male abstains from sexual intercourse and childcare even though there is no genetic or ecological reason for him to do so.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“As a sexually active teen in a Catholic family, I was given no sex information other than the nun who advised our 8th grade…

— Heather Corinna

“He reminded me that I was not the first priest to acknowledge his sexuality and that despite the Vatican’s stance, a chaste and celibate…

— Charles Benedict

“as Barbara Tuchman, author of Distant Mirror, put it, “clerical celibacy was a joke.” Despite the previous ban on clerical marriages, nuns, monks, cardinals,…

— Charles River Editors

“The Catholic Church wasn't just a part of his parents' live, and his grandparents', it ruled their lives. The priests told them what to…

— Louise Penny

“The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people…

— Sonya Renee Taylor

“Pedophiles the world over. If you want to do that insufferable thing you do without care, concern, and/or worry; become a Catholic priest. Birds…

— A.K. Kuykendall

Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

— Lisa Kleypas

“Though I wholeheartedly supported celibacy at the start of my seminary career, my opinion changed as I made my way toward and through priesthood.”

— Charles Benedict

“Bondurant was no expert on where sex between consenting adults on cathedral grounds fit in the grand hierarchy of sins in the Catholic faith.…

— John Heubusch

“I find it appalling that the Church claims Mary consented at the age of thirteen to become the mother of God.” “But she did,”…

— Janet M. Tavakoli

“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if…

— Alan Wilson Watts