Now, as a result of my feeling deeply infatuated with the gloriously beautiful body of the busty (37") young Lynda Carter in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume in late August 2024 into September 2024, I felt wonderfully exuberant for about ten weeks in the fall of 2024.
Now, my various discussions here of my own experiences of infatuation with a certain other person in my adult life leads me to point out now that the Roman Catholic priests who sexually abuse young boys and young girls are at the moment of the abuse infatuated with them. As I have indicated above, sexually abusive priests are locked into The Impotent Lover "shadow" form of the masculine Lover archetype of maturity in their psyches.
Now, with these various comments in mind, the times has now come for me to return to commenting on Charles Nadeau's op-ed commentary "Bankruptcy is not repentance for clergy sex abuse" in The National Catholic Reporter, mentioned above.
As I have said, I see clergy sex abuse as growing out of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity, and I see the requirement of priestly celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church as growing out of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity.
I see the Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals and the pope as hopeless when it comes to reversing the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity and of the church's requirement of priestly celibacy.
The only hope is that individual Catholics will become aware of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity in their psyches and their lives and will start moving to develop their body-positivity and their sex-positivity in their own individual personal lives.
Now, in all honesty, I do not know if it would help the victims of priest sex abuse to heal if they recognized the abuse that they suffered at the hands of supposedly celibate priests grew out of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity.
However, apart from the victims of priest sex abuse, all other roman Catholics are, to one degree or another, the victims of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity in their individual psyches and lives, and so all other Roaman Catholics need to cultivate body-positivity and sex-positivity in their own personal lives.
Now, I wonder what the historical Jesus would say about the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity.
I have written about the historical Jesus in the following two OEN articles:
(1) "Elaine Pagels' New 2025 Book on the Historical Jesus" (dated November 6, 2025; viewed 1,713 times as of February 10, 2026):
(2) "My UMD Course on the Bible as Literature, and Walter J. Ong's Thought" (dated September 19, 2025; viewed 1,971 times as of February 10, 2026):
For further reading about the historical Jesus, see Paula Fredriksen's book Jesus of Nazareth: King of the Jews (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999).
In conclusion, in the title of Charles Nadeau's op-ed article in The National Catholic Reporter (dated February 9, 2026), we find the word "repentance." No doubt this is a relevant term for Charles Nadeau to use because he is referring to church officials. However, in the text of Charles Nadeau's op-ed commentary, he does not explicitly define and explain this term, because he is more focused on arguing that bankruptcy proceedings are not repentance. Now, I have argued here that the Roman Catholic Church's requirement of priestly celibacy is a manifestation of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity. No doubt priest sex abuse is also a manifestation of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity. To combat and counter the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity in their psyches, American Catholics need to repent and combat and counter the tragic anti-body heritage in their psyches by developing their body-positivity and sex-positivity. This is true both for American Catholic priests sex abusers and for American Catholics who have been sexually abused by priests.
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