Critics on the Love of Celibate Person.

        It is important to remember that the celibate person is not in himself a sign of the kingdom of God. The fact of having no family, no children, and no relationship with the person of the opposite sex does not mean that one has made one’s choice in accordance with the Gospel. In certain case this might be a selfish form of life and so contrary to the Gospel. For example, if under the pretext of embracing evangelical perfection, one were to renounce love or refuse to allow oneself to be loved, one would be denying the essence of the Gospel. The vocation to love in the celibate state, since it demands total liberty for oneself, and must create room for full liberty for others, must of necessity be a life lived in painful purification. This purification must lead towards a full or perfect charity. Therefore this state must be one of uncertainty or tension, which is after finds the submission in hope.