The Consensus has it out for priestly celibacy and chastity in Catholicism. Which means we the faithful, lay and clerical, are called to rally around these teachings and practices of the Church, to double down on them, to defend them articulately and winsomely. Because at stake is nothing less than the power of divine grace to transform human nature.
But first, as to “the Consensus”. That’s my new preferred term for the liberal-technocratic ideology that has emerged as Christianity’s chief rival – enemy, really – in our time, much as Arianism contended with the faith from roughly the 4th century to the 7th.
