celibacy quotes

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.