Celibacy Is a Gift to Priests—and the Laity - Crisis Magazine

Celibacy Is a Gift to Priests—and the Laity - Crisis Magazine: Few books have caused so much controversy even before they were published than did From the Depths of Our Hearts, a new defense of clerical celibacy in the Roman Church by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Robert Cardinal Sarah. On January 14, Benedict’s private secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, told the Italian news agency ANSA that, …