Wow, Pope got better fast!
Plus the Eastern Rites do permit married priests.
This story continues to recycle via different media outlets. Why keep reposting it?
Ok, that’s a start...what’s the pay again?
The discipline of celibacy is generally followed in the Roman Rite - but many other Catholic churches such as the Melkite have always had married priests.
And there are exceptions - for example, for Anglican priests who were already married when they were ordained as Catholic priests.
It is a prudential concern, though, for the reasons stated by St. Paul - a married man has his wife and children to think of (just ask the Methodists - my grandfather-in-law was a Methodist minister and he was transferred every couple of years, sometimes to very out of the way places. He had to work several jobs as well as ministry to make ends meet. His wife and kids put up with a lot!)
In the smaller bodies such as the Melkite & Anglican Use that is not so much of a concern, but in the larger Roman rite generally where men are transferred hither and yon, and many congregations barely have the means to support a priest, let alone a wife and children, it really isn't workable.
Most of the Anglican priests who have come over have been found jobs in the chanceries or other ministries rather than parishes.
I appreciate tradition, but this non-Catholic think it would not be bad if priests could marry.
Centuries of Catholic tradition proves on married clergy simply, this— what’s the point of it? It’s a politically manufactured issue from mischief makers. Surveys among priests show no interest in the question.
Of course in seminaries younger minds can be turned, just as say, parents dressing their daughters in the new “slut fashions”. Where behavior modification is allowed to rule, then it these things are made to be “normalized”.
Same with conservatives sending their kids into public schools, into Common Core and socialist influence and expecting a different result. Astounding.
The Liberation Theologist Pope must have forgotten that the ‘back door’(nasty pun intended) to ‘marriage’ was always available to the priests, thanks to a few Top Theologians(another such pun) allowing a “Queer Qulture” to flourish at a few seminaries(no pun this time).
One must assume such behavior will not be acceptable at a certain “Judgement”. It certainly was not to alter boys, etc.
The Catholic Church can no more afford such behavior than can America. Certain Commandments carry certain punishment here and now, based on the inherent order of the universe.
Perversion is destructive, to religious organizations and to the families which are the core foundation upon which Judao-Christian nations are predicated.
BAH! HUMBUGGERY!
Celibacy is a gift not a curse
Let the priests revert back to Deacons then.
I was just talking to my son about this - a Catholic church in a small town near us has just had computers confiscated because of child pornography.
It is neither natural or Biblical to require those who lead the church to remain single, and therefore celibate. This eliminates the majority of good Catholics right off the bat.
This is the perfect setting to foster exactly what has happened. Joining the priesthood would be a perfect cover for a homosexual to hold a job, hold a highly respectable position, not have to explain to anyone why he isn’t married, and have easy access to children, in a position of trust and authority.
A disaster waiting to happen, IMHO.
Or at least *most* of them are.Anglican priests in various Western countries (US,Canada,Europe,Australia,etc) who convert to Catholicism and are then allowed to serve as Catholic priests are allowed to be married.So why not *all* priests?
Then what happens vis-a’-vis gay marriage?
Gay married priests?
Just two days ago we were told by FRoman Catholic apologists that the current Pope can’t change doctrine/dogma because it was set in stone long ago. He, we were told, is just the overseer.
Oh well. Nothing to see here.
1 Corinthians 7:8
New King James Version (NKJV)
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; 9 but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
What about same-sex marriage and polygamy for priests?
I do wonder if the prohibition against marriage in the Roman Catholic Church has had the unexpected side effect of acting as a magnet for homosexuals to join the priesthood since if they traditionally stayed out of the priesthood they would be expected to get married and have children...
I think the original prohibition of married clergy was to prevent the whole problem of hereditary lines though the church when the hereditary lines that were in the church were seen as a threat to the feudal system’s power at that time.
Not really an issue any more, well except for the families Bush and Clinton, etc...
Title: Celibacy for priests not unchangeable dogma, Pope Francis says
Pope: Celibacy is not a dogma ... since it is not a dogma, the door is always open
Suspect title.