There are very good reasons why priests should not marry.
There is no way they can satisfy the needs of the Church and her people and tend to a family as well.
A priest gets called to service at any hour of the day, and any day of the week. And he must be available - in body, mind and spirit.
If it’s that important to marry while serving the Church, he can become a Deacon.
I agree that celibate clergy has its benefits; the martyrs of Bolshevism and Communism would be fewer and farther between if those priests had been married. In Spain’s Civil War, more than six thousand priests, a dozen bishops, and hundreds of nuns were murdered by Communists - and many were offered their lives if they would denounce the faith. I suspect if they had families some would have.
One of the issues with this question is the fact that most Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church DO have married priests...
Hi MichaelCorleone. Noting that “overseer” in 1 Timothy 3:1-5 is a translation of Greek word for bishop, your statement doesn’t necessarily compliment that passage, particularly verse 5. Please comment.
Actually, it works just fine for doctors, firefighters, EMT’s, and the EO. There are plenty of occupations which require people to be on call at all hours of the day or night.
And if they allowed married priests, there would be lots more and they would be able to sharer the burden and it would be less pressure on the few they have.
Your argument fails on so many points.