Pope thanks virgins for 'total gift' to Christ

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*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?