[Miles the Slasher]

I think the article is misleading. It has never been permissible for a deacon or priest to get married, ever. What had been allowed in the past was for a married man to be ordained a priest or deacon.

What the article, I think, means to say is...Francis wants the Pan Amazon synod to consider ordaining married men for the priest crisis there. This would allegedly be on an “experimental” basis; i.e., will try it here and ram it down everyone else’s throats later.

In my opinion, that would be an unwise concession to the modern age. Just Francis the Wrecking Ball continuing to plow away.

[Popman]

-—It has never been permissible for a deacon or priest to get married, ever.-—

Ever ?

You sure about that ?

[detective]

“It has never been permissible for a deacon or priest to get married, ever.”

I think you are incorrect. St. Peter, the apostles and the early priests were married men. I have read that records from the middle ages show that the vast majority of Catholic priests were married.

[Popman]

Second Lateran Council held in 1139, when a rule was approved forbidding priests to marry.

I never know Catholic history started in 1139...concerning priests marrying...

[Sacajaweau]

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/696

[MrEdd]

Priests were not forbidden to marry until the Second Lateran Council held in 1139.

We forgive you for not knowing that, since it happened a teensy bit before your time. Or before the discovery of the Americas.

[ravenwolf]

I think the article is misleading. It has never been permissible for a deacon or priest to get married, ever. What had been allowed in the past was for a married man to be ordained a priest or deacon.

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I don`t know where you get your doctrine but it sure does not come from the Bible, so it most be man made doctrine which religious institutions are very good at.