Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

The Gospel has to be the norm.

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.