It’s good enough for defecting Episcopalians but not for the rest?
The Cardinals are on a very, very slippery slope with that pretzel logic. Ending celebacy for the rest would attract a class of more sexually well-adjusted people into the Priesthood, and perhaps end the Church’s long Jerry Sandusky nightmare.
Because if it’s so wrong and against Church teachings, why are they using it to recruit Episcopalians?
Did I just call the Holy Father a hypocrite there??
“Did I just call the Holy Father a hypocrite there??”
And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
~Matthew 23:9
Guess the RCC just ignored that verse.
You quite obviously do not know that these defecting Episcopalians must agree, prior to ordination, that if their spouse precedes them in death they must then adopt the discipline of celibacy for the remainder of their life.
Ending celebacy(sic) for the rest would attract a class of more sexually well-adjusted people into the Priesthood,
Like these paragons of virtue?
perhaps end the Church’s long Jerry Sandusky nightmare.
Sandusky is married. Michael Jackson was married, twice. Try again.
Did I just call the Holy Father a hypocrite there??
Where ignorance is bliss, tis' folly to be wise.
Celibacy is not against Church teachings, it's against Latin rite discipline, i.e. it is a regulation that can be scrapped at any point or even removed for some. Especially note that for all other rites in the Catholic Church, married men can become priests.