In recent weeks, it became public that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (92 years old) was to appear as co-author of a book where he advocates, with conservative passion and religious fervor, the practice of celibacy within the Catholic church.
The doctrine has affirmed that family life and life as a priest are incompatible by nature. The idea behind celibacy is the divine concept of love, which argues that dedication to God combined with the altruistic commitment to love everyone equally should never create a space that allows sexual relations to take place.
But this conservative posture of Benedict XVI (secular name Joseph Ratzinger) clashes with that of the Synod for the Amazon, convened by the Vatican itself, where the door to the no-celibacy of priests in remote parts of the world was opened.
