Aaheli Bagchi
TO SEX OR TO CELIBATE
Is it right for a celibate Priest to kiss a married woman, especially when she has come for guidance? The answer depends on whether you have an ethical heart or a human heart. It is, of course, ethically wrong for a man, let alone a priest, to look at a woman with lustful eyes. The human heart that knows the frailties of the flesh whispers: to sex is natural but to celibate is unnatural.
To find one of the partners guilty and let the other go scot- free is undoubtedly a travesty of justice. Medieval societies considered women as temptress and blamed them for anything that goes wrong. The modern society blames it on sex, instead. The pertinent question is that, had the priest stopped at the passionate kiss, would the hapless woman, or perhaps the fortunate woman, let him go?
Passions kindled had to find their logical end, no matter who the prime mover may be. And out of the unholy wedlock came the boy who called his progenitor, the Reverend father, not his own father. Mysterious are the ways of religion which outsiders will never understand.
News report in TOI Delhi (Oct 17, page 18): Pat Bond, who went for a spiritual conference in Illinois 26 years ago, was passionately kissed by Rev Henry Willenborg, a dynamite, handsome priest, drowning her into a vortex of lust with no holds barred. Out came the inevitable, Nathan Halbach, now 22. Both the mother and son are fighting cancer but raising burning moral issues.
gr8 observation... but don't u think priest gets used to the lustful view...
ReplyDeletecrisp..though i wud hv preferred third para preceding second..
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