Sex confessions of 'living saint' shock France

[emad]

Kim Willsher in Paris
Friday October 28, 2005
The Guardian


A leading Roman Catholic cleric who is regularly voted one of France's most popular personalities has shocked the country by admitting he has had casual sex.

Abbé Pierre, a member of the French Resistance during the second world war and a fervent defender of human rights, made the confession in his latest book, titled My God - Why?

The 93-year-old Abbé's carnal confession - amounting to just a few lines tucked away in his "meditations" - has exploded like a bombshell in the Catholic community, which has long regarded him as a living saint.


Abbé Pierre, an outspoken critic of Rome's intransigence over clerical celibacy, caused a minor storm last year when in a previous book he admitted having a long but platonic passion for an unnamed choir singer who had the "voice of an angel".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1602564,00.html

[ozarkvet]

1. Gee, he's human.

Go figure.

[ret5hd]

2. My God!...a priest with normal human desires...

a passionate man, a member of the French Resistance, a defender of human rights...all that washed away, WASHED AWAY i tell you...because he had sex with a woman instead of a boy!

[kurth]

3. The Catholic church needs to get rid of the celibacy charade

And become part of the 21st century. Let the priests marry and experience a normal life. They're not saints as long as they're still breathing and having erections.

[Ian David]

5. I once went 17 years without sex, and it nearly destroyed me

I can only imagine what it must be like for a priest to also have to forgo masturbation.

Even James Dobson admits to masturbating, and tells fathers they should encourage their children to masturbate without guilt.

No wonder so many of those guys go-priestal on choir boys.

[underpants]

6. Bill Cosby "The only one who would talk to us about it was a priest...

EXCUSE ME!!?!??!"

Classic skit he did about marriage. His mother swore that Bill's folks marriage was perfect (That is a LIE! I heard them in there) and his father told him to ask his mother. A priest said "Let me tell you about it...EXCUSE ME!?!?"

On their wedding night they went up to their room....sat on the edge of the bed with their clothes on....and then got in the car and went to a drive-in movie .....THERE they knew what to do.

[xchrom]

4. good!

as sister wendy so amusingly put it -- ''god wouldn't give you something and not expect you to play with it''.

sex is to be enjoyed -- i'm glad he indulged occasionally.
it makes life better.