January 1, Disgraced Former Priest Pleads Guilty to Obscenity

There are natural situations and conditions for Natural Acts – a sanctified church or its altar do not belong to this natural list.
As far as the Judaic roots of Christianity go, a Rabbi has to be married, before he can be entrusted with care of a congregation – and this seems indeed a reasonable and cautious rule which was practices in early Christian communities, too. Monastic rules seem to be slightly different in this, depending on their nature and religious practice. We’d have to see, first, that monasteries evolved from single monk hermitages to an early formation of cooperative hermitages – a move that may just have been necessary to keep individual hermits alive, and there can be no doubt that caring women would have cooperated in such groups – although not necessarily in direct cohabitation.
The medieval founders of monastic orders, however, did not approve of any such cohabitation but had, as the celibacy, first only for bishops, then for priests in general – quasi as “Marriage to the Church” – had become commonly accepted, at a earlier time, the same was applied to the monastic “Marriage to the Church” (as a man could not be married to Jesus Christ – which female monastic orders that followed the male ones often do ceremoniously) and the Service to the Lord was considered to take the whole person in possession, thus not allowing distraction by Love for another human being.
It is a person’s complete devotion to the Lord that requires the whole person!