IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Lynne Kelleher
Monday January 23 2012
A MISSIONARY priest who has saved hundreds of children from a life of sexual abuse has described celibacy in the Catholic Church as a “business arrangement” that will soon be a thing of the past.
Fr Shay Cullen has earned three Nobel Peace Prize nominations during his 40 years fighting to save small children from paedophiles on the streets of the city Olongapo in the Philippines.
“Celibacy is only a practice mostly to keep property out of the hands of married couples,” he said. “It’s more sort of a business type of arrangement.
“All of the other Christian churches manage very well and many Anglicans who were married and had family and children and came over to the Catholics and were warmly accepted.
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