Pope thanks virgins for 'total gift' to Christ

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex

Lashbear gave the punchline.

Doh! (Never heard that one.)

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

...and I don't respect and honor the choices made by drunken coeds pretending to be porn lesbians for Girls Gone Wild and the like.

I do!

And for the record, they are not lesbians, they are all "experimenting" and/or "bi-curious", which is just fine by me.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

*this is not to say that one's life is fulfilled only through coupledom and child-rearing. Not the case. But to ask those who both want to lead a church and raise a family to pick one but not the other - it's long been a beef of mine with my church of origin.

**and to ask someone to neither lead a church nor raise a family, that seems a bit odd too. Maybe my question is: why? If the Catholic stance is that one, in order to lead, must not be distracted by the complexity of one's own family/sexuality... what is the reason consecrated virgins are asked to refrain? Is it that sexual behavior is impure? Because - in their own teaching, sex for procreation IS pure. So it brings me back to my very first statement: is this an exhaulted thing because it's the only permitted process of population reduction?

[mousepod]

I think Christ is massing tons of virgins in Heaven so that the Pope can start recruiting terrorists.

"You get 85 virgins with us!"

[JWBear]

I don't see what the attraction to virgins is all about. I prefer someone with who knows what they're doing.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by JWBear

I don't see what the attraction to virgins is all about. I prefer someone with who knows what they're doing.

1. With a virgin, you will be the best she (or) has ever had (at least until the next one).
2. With a virgin, you can get them to do things someone with experience might not, "oh, that's a very normal thing to do."

Not that I have ever put any thought into the subject.