The point - intent of the global news story - is to undermine the Pope and the Holy See as well as orthodox Protestants. I only leave out the Eastern Orthodox because secular Western opponents of Christianity ignore the catholicity and orthodoxy in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches.
Constantine and the Pope created all it would seem - until Luther and Calvin and the other Reformers.
Of importance in every single one of these journalistic articles or TV shows is connect a sexually active Jesus with evidence that in so-called over-populated world that a faithful Jesuit is committing grave sin by not helping overpopulate the world. Or at least by not having sex and using birth control.
Of course, the idea is a contradiction if in fact the world is overpopulated, and celibate priests, nuns, and monks should be praised for their selfless act of helping protect Mother Nature and reduce the chances of famine, disease, war, and global warming due to over population.
(I do think it is correct to infer from the statistical data that the exponential population growth across the world has partly caused global warming - although, I disagree with the idea that earth has reached it’s carrying capacity)
Basically, it is a method of propaganda to increase doubt and demoralize Christians. Precisely why such global news focuses on revisionist history of Jesus and Christianity and not Islam, Buddhism, or Hinduism.
If I wrote articles discussing and drawing claims about Judaism or Islam using the diction and tone standard in these articles, and have my editors made them national or global news every time, I would be accused of not just bias but of a malicious hatred.
And male and female feminists are really irked by the fact their are grown men that vow celibacy rather than place themselves under an intimate and authoritarian influence from women (via: girlfriend or wife). Interesting, they have not of the wrath for active gay males, which in terms of logic, discriminate against women. The word discrimination is not one and the same as sexism or racism. If a man prefers short, dark women to tall, lighter skinned women, he acts with discrimination. Same for women that prefer men with X, Y, or Z traits. And for a man to prefer a woman - sexually - over a man is to have an aesthetic preference that discriminates against one of the sexes. There is not that great a degree of sexual dimorphism among humans anyways - not like there is among gorillas or baboons. In fact, some women are more “robust” in features than Justin Bieber. Women over 40 also begin to masculinize in their features according to forensic anthropologist. But I digress…
I think my point is a celibate priest is no more discrimnatory against women than a sexually active gay man that marries another man.
