Open letter to pope urges end to celibacy - By the CNN Wire Staff

Rome, Italy (CNN) -- About a dozen Italian women have posted an open letter to the pope on the internet in which they claim to have had intimate relationships with priests and urge the church to abolish celibacy for Catholic clergy.

The letter was posted on an Italian online forum in March but was not picked up in the media until Global Post, an international news website, reported on it this week. Photo 

"The priest, like every human being, needs to live with his kindred, to experience feelings, to love and be loved, and also to conform deeply with another, something which he is hardly willing to do for fear of exposing himself to danger," the letter says. Read more - By the CNN Wire Staff

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/05/28/italy.catholics.celibacy/index.html