Cardinal says Priests will marry

The Scotsman ^ | 5/26/2005

[annalex]

Thank you.

So, what constitutes a valid marriage -- exchange of vows and marriageability?

[biblewonk]

Yes, they were.

No way man. Nope not at all. :-P

[biblewonk]

Well, again, priest is derived from presbyter. We do not call the priest "presbyter" in common English usage, because we have called him "priest" in all the 1600+ years since Christianity was introduced to the English. Yet we don't have a separate word for sacerdos except "priest", and we need to distinguish between the common sacerdos and the presbyter sacerdos through some means, as the presbyters are very important to us. As you say, they are professionals and they are the only ones allowed to perform various sacraments, including the Eucharist, which we Catholics (and Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, and the Churches of Christ, among others) hold in the highest esteem.

I certainly don't know about word derivation but I know for sure that an elder in the NT church is in no way a Priest in the OT sense. So why do you keep saying that it is. The two jobs are totally different.

[biblewonk]

Whenever this problem has arisen in the Latin language, the Catholic Church has tended to put new words into common Latin usage, or to solemnly define words that had previously been used with different meanings. This is how the term Sacrament became so important in Catholic theology.

Yet another thing I dislike about the RCC.