This guy became a priest hoping that the church would change its policy on celibacy. That wasn’t a very realistic plan.

Dr. Susan Berry of Breitbart reports.

Boston College’s Religious Edu Chair Calls Priestly Celibacy ‘Hazardous’

A laicized priest who is the chairman of Jesuit-led Boston College’s religious education department referred to celibacy in Roman Catholic priests as “hazardous” and “destructive.”

Thomas Groome, who appeared on National Public Radio last week, said he believed when he was ordained a priest in 1968 that the Church’s practice of celibacy for priests would change following Vatican II. When the requirement for celibacy remained unchanged, however, Groome said he grew more conflicted about its place in his life.

“In fact, it probably was becoming destructive of me,” Groome said. “And I think that’s one of the dangers of obligatory celibacy, that it can lead to self-destructive and outer-destructive behavior. It’s a hazardous lifestyle.”

Groome said after 17 years he took a leave of absence from the priesthood, then fell in love, applied for dispensation from Rome, and got married. He said that if the rules about celibacy changed, he would consider returning to the priesthood.

However, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights called Groome’s comments about celibacy “pure rubbish.”

As the Christian Post reported, Donohue said, “Why Thomas Groome would enter the priesthood counting on the Catholic Church to change its teaching on celibacy suggests bad judgment: no one would join a vegetarian association hoping it would soon allow for the consumption of hot dogs.”

Donohue said he was “delighted” that Groome is happily married, but said “his notions about celibacy causing self-destructive behavior are pure rubbish. Indeed, self-destructive behavior is what marks Hollywood, not exactly a bastion of celibacy.”

As the head of a Catholic college’s religious education department, Groome openly supported the re-election of Barack Obama in 2012 despite the knowledge that Obama is a pro-abortion president.