CELIBACY: A Certain Physical and Psychic Void

There is a sentence in Sacerdotalis Caelibatus that Paul VI plainly did not intend to be read the way I am about to read it. Defending the law of clerical celibacy against every objection he could muster the courage to name, he concedes that the young man who embraces it is walking a road that leads, “on the one hand … to a certain physical and psychic void.”… Read further…