Reposting this as a question to avoid misinterpretation: Is there a discrepancy on the Catholic church's teachings on celibacy? https://www.biblegateway.com/p

Reposting this as a question to avoid misinterpretation: Is there a discrepancy on the Catholic church's teachings on celibacy? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%204 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%204... Hypothesis: It is unnatural to forcibly suppress desires for life, one way or another it will come out (i.e. child sex abuse). Studies 38% accused, 0.1% convicted “Cartor, Cimbolic & Tallon (2008) found that 6 percent of the cleric offenders in the John Jay Report are pedophiles; 32 percent ephebophiles, 15 percent 11 & 12 year olds only (both male and female)...” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay_Report https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay_Report Critic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6026966/\\\\ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6026966/\\\\*