NY Cardinal Eddie Egan known for absolutely nothing at all but being a bookmark in the history of the American church told an Albany NY radio interviewer that celibacy for priests should be reconsidered. This of course is as obvious a statement as altar boys should wear chastity belts since the shortage of priests in Roman catholicism has reached critical mass.
The US has become a mission country with most priests being imported from simple minded countries where critical thinking has yet to evolve and the priesthood is a good educational path with three hots and a cot guaranteed. ( If you scale the hierarchical heights as Egan did, the cot is on Madison Ave and the hots are served at the Four Seasons.)
Asked why he was in Albany a northern outpost of the Archdiocese, the retiring cardinal spilled the beans:" Look, I was visiting the little lady and she pulled a Lysastrata on me. She said that there would be no more nookie if I didn't grow some balls and speak for the love we dared not speak its name, like millions of rectory "housekeepers".Now the Pope's got the Inquisition trying to cut off my newly grown testicles!"
