And immediately disqualifies a single male from counseling anyone except other single men...
**And immediately disqualifies a single male from counseling anyone except other single men...**
Don’t you think that priests came from families? They know about marriage and the different things that happen there. Your arguement does hold water for me.
Another thing, now many priests have worked out in the secular world. Ours worked in the airline industry, everything from ticket counter to lost luggage. I think he got a good education on dealing with others than single men, don’t you?
A specious, at best, statement. Using your flawed logic, only a recovered heroin addict, cokehead, pothead, tweaker, alcoholic, nymphomaniac, adulterer, fornicator, thief, etc. can counsel an active heroin addict, cokehead, pothead, tweaker, alcoholic, nymphomaniac, adulterer, fornicator, thief, etc. that their behavior is sinful and they need to amend their lives and expiate their sins.
Obviously you know nothing about the lives of the vast majority of Priests prior to their ordination.
Tired old anti-Catholic smear. Anyone who actually believes this wheeze knows nothing about what priests, or therapists and counselors for that matter, actually do.
There’s this thing called EDUCATION, for one thing. It means that people can know things that they haven’t experienced themselves. Ever hear of it?
There’s also intelligence, common sense, empathy, insight.
Moreover, Catholic priests do NOT do marriage counseling unless they are trained and certified to do so just like any other citizen.