Jesus strongly believed in marriage.
The Lord commands us to be fruitful and multiply.
The Lord created Eve because He did not want Adam to be alone.
We are supposed to celebrate life, not celibate life.
Physical intimacy between husband and wife is a holy gift from God and should be denied to man, and certainly not our priests.
‘Physical intimacy between husband and wife is a holy gift from God and should be denied to man, and certainly not our priests.’
I suggest that you don’t become a Catholic priest.
‘Jesus strongly believed in marriage’
As does the Catholic Church. However, I do not know who Jesus married or how many children he fathered.
So what is wrong with a priest dedicating his life completely to Christ as a single?
What is wrong with a woman deciding to become a cloistered nun that prays for sinners?
What is wrong with becoming a member of an order (Franciscan, Carmelite, Benedictine, etc.) and putting special duties and promises at the top of your list?
FYI, there are some Anglican and Lutheran and other converts to Catholicism who have kept the married state and become priests....they are in a sense, grandfathered in. I’ve been to the ordinations of two of them, but there were ten times the single men dedicated only to God ordained on those days! I also know of a very holy priest who was divorced and then his wife died, so he entered the seminary. What’s wrong with that?
noone is denied anything...Ordination is strictly voluntarily entered into, no one forces anyone into anything