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Article: Celibacy ? it is just not natural.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 30, 2002
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Byline: BRIAN SEWELL
AS a sometime Catholic who has gone far beyond the slightly shamefaced agnosticism of the merely lapsed and now believes nothing of his former faith, I had not thought to express any view on the current scandal-mongering about priests who woo their altar boys, but one particularly spiteful headline in a broadsheet changed my wind. "Who," it asked, echoing the words attributed to Henry II that led to the murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, "will rid us of paedophile priests?" That echo chilled my soul.
Some years ago, when Scotland Yard was engaged in arresting ring after ring of paedophiles, I thought it might be useful ...