Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Priests' secret mistresses - una epistola anticattolica

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/27/italian-priests-mistresses-letter-pope
Dozens of Italian women who have had relationships with Roman Catholic 
priests or lay monks have endorsed an open letter to the pope that calls 
for the abolition of the celibacy rule. The letter, thought by one 
signatory to be unprecedented, argues that a priest "needs to live with 
his fellow human beings, experience feelings, love and be loved".
It also pleads for understanding of those who "live out in secrecy those 
few moments the priest manages to grant [us] and experience on a daily 
basis the doubts, fears and insecurities of our men".
The issue was put back on the Vatican's agenda in March when one of Pope 
Benedict's senior advisers, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop 
of Vienna, said the abolition of the celibacy rule might curb sex abuse 
by priests, a suggestion he hastily withdrew after Benedict spoke up for 
"the principle of holy celibacy".
The authors of the letter said they decided to come into the open after 
hearing his retort, which they said was an affirmation of "the holiness 
of something that is not holy" but a man-made rule. There are many 
instances of married priests in the early centuries of Christianity. 
Today, priests who follow the eastern Catholic rites can be married, as 
can those who married before converting to Roman Catholicism from 
Anglicanism.
One signatory, Stefania Salomone, 42, an office manager, said the 
message to the pope had been endorsed by nearly 40 women registered with 
an online forum linked to Il Dialogo website. But such was the 
sensitivity of the issue that only three had published their names.
The letter was posted on the internet on 28 March. But it was only 
reported on Wednesday by the online international news agency, globalPost.
Salomone said that because Catholics were taught to look up to priests, 
women dropped by their priest-lovers "often lose their faith in men 
altogether". Her own five-year relationship had been platonic, but 
Antonella Carisio, one of the other signatories, said she had an affair 
with a Brazilian priest who frequently slept at her house.
When their relationship was discovered by another priest, he was 
transferred to Rome. "When he left, he even gave me an engagement ring," 
she said.
But he subsequently returned to Brazil and this week told the globalPost 
news agency: "She was a friend and a confidante, but I was never in love 
with her."

 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/27/italian-priests-mistresse.
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Sinceramente, non mi sento minimamente di condividere questa lettera.
Essere sacerdoti cattolici non è obbligatorio: se hanno deciso di far
parte del club "qui si fa come si decide a Roma", o ci stanno o se ne
vanno.
Stay or go.
Nessuna solidarietà da parte mia.

 Sinceramente, non mi sento minimamente di condividere questa lettera.
il mio commento e': boh. Ma mi interessa la notizia. Ancora di piu' mi 
interessa il silenzio di chi serenamete affermava che nessuna tempesta 
di questo tipo stava per abbattersi sulla Chiesa italiana. E questa 
settimana la CEI ha parlato di cento casi di pedofilia...