The reality of celibate violations extends beyond priests who abuse minors and the bishops who hide them. And he has insisted that bishops take firm and decisive action to deal with sex abusers. The diocese of spokane, washington, has removed a parish priest from ministry and allowed police to open an investigation into him following several accusations of sexual misconduct.
Four men ordained priests - Catholic Telegraph
The catholic diocese of spokane removed a priest from ministry and asked police to investigate after he was accused of misappropriation of funds and sexual misconduct involving six women
Sex and the (vatican) city
A brief history of clerical celibacy amid an ongoing papal debate about whether to relax a rule against married men becoming priests, and with the church of england calling for christians in gay or straight civil unions to be abstinent, emma j wells considers the history of celibacy in the christian church Pope leo xiv has affirmed that priests must be celibate
