[marajade]

So the Church cites first timothy when it comes to reason why women can't be priests but it overlooks timothy when it says that priests should be married. Okie dokie.

[Conservative til I die]

So the Church cites first timothy when it comes to reason why women can't be priests but it overlooks timothy when it says that priests should be married. Okie dokie.

The Church has never said priests cannot be married. As we all should know, the Eastern Rites of the Church allow for married priests, and the Western Rite (the Roman Catholic Church as most see it) allows for certain Anglican and Lutheran married clergy that convert to be priests.

[fogofbobegabay]

The prohibition of married clergy in the Latin rite is only a matter of discipline. It is not based on any biblical or doctrinal basis. Thus it could be changed at any time. Note former Protestant clergy who ordained under the Church's Pastoral Provision and the many Eastern Rite Catholic churches that allow married priests (no bishops though)

[sitetest]

Dear marajade,

The epistle that you cite merely states that bishops should be married no more than once, not that priests or bishops should be married.

The Catholic Church agrees. As well, the discipline in the Latin Rite is that priests typically will maintain vows of celibacy, as encouraged by St. Paul elsewhere.


sitetest

[Alex Murphy]

So the Church cites first timothy when it comes to reason why women can't be priests but it overlooks timothy when it says that priests should be married. Okie dokie.

My sentiments exactly.