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Article: McBrien suggestion: serious or passing fancy. (NCR columnist Richard McBrien's ideas on gene pool loss due to celibacy)(Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- January 10, 1997
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The case for genetic determination of ever more human traits and characteristics seems, at times, relentless to the point of overpowering. And now comes the suggestion that folks are genetically disposed toward a divine calling. Consequently, the reasoning goes, one might detect a deficiency in the Catholic gene pool as far as sacred traits go because priests have been unable to marry.
Whew!
Fr. Richard McBrien, the provocative and courageous theologian whose column appears regularly in these pages, is enamored of a suggestion by Yamil Lara, a Catholic attorney from New Haven, Conn. Lara concludes that the failure of priests to have children "has lowered ...
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