Vows of chastity are difficult to keep, no matter who is making them. I don’t believe it is biblically required for a priest to be unmarried. But, since the Catholic Church requires that, people who aren’t willing to live up to that standard just shouldn’t become priests.
So, Catholics see impotence as a valid way to end a marriage? Does this allow divorce, or is it that odd concept of “annulment?”
Thank you for posting this article.
A vow of marriage between a gay couple is a promise to God to continue being an abomination. Dangerous territory if you ask me.
It is foolish to put such unreasonable and unnatural restrictions of Priests. We as human beings are incapable of avoiding sin on our own. Fortunately God is forgiving of the repentant.
It is foolish of the Catholic church to put additional obsticles in the path of Priests trying to avoid sin. It also seems ridicules to prohibit those who commit themselves to God from having and raising children. Why would God wish for his most faithful servants to be banned from reproducing?
Though I think it would be better off sticking with God's rules, the Catholic Church has a right to make its own rules. For a long time I was a Catholic that disagreed with some fundamental teachings of the Church. Eventually it occurred to me that if I disagreed on such fundamental issues, then I wasn't really Catholic. So I'm no longer Catholic.
Excellent article and thanks for posting it, Dr. Kopp.
BTTT
I just read this article and think it is very good; just not sure if it should be pinged out; I’ll let you decide, since it seems more of interest to Catholics.
The explanation of why chastity (I would use the term celibacy but I will have to look up the exact definitions; I think of celibacy as refraining from all sexual acts) is also esteemed in Hinduism, for basically the same or correlated reasons.
(pinging a couple of other names who might like this one.)