Roman Catholics, how do you feel about the issue of married priests?
Cardinal Egan said just now that this issue will certainly be addressed in the future.
Do you see any problem with being allowed priests to marry? Today, Catholic priests are the only clergy who can not marry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/nyregion/22egan.html
- How the Roman Catholic priests Feel About …?
- What can a Roman Catholic priest has to offer along Advice civil matters when he is not married?
- Catholics know that the priests would get married?
- They are the priests and nuns who still Catholic Married Each Other?
- See how the Roman Catholic priests can not marry?
I think you should be entitled to enjoy what other people. If they preach about love, then you should also experience. It is everyone's natural right to pursue happiness.
Well first, Catholic priests are married. Came from other religions and converted to the Roman Catholic faith and because they were married are allowed to keep his wife and children.
I believe it is much more than what the church once again to allow married priests! So until 1500 when Pope then changed to the rules, because the wife and children of priests who had died or treasure and taking money from the churches to their husbands or fathers had worked in live after he had dead. This is a man in a law that must be eliminated. The number of priests to be men in this world is becoming smaller and smaller every year! The area I live in Wisconsin, a Catholic priest shares with 15 other churches! Most only have a mass of one weekend because of this disaster!
I also believe that women should be allowed to be priests, but I doubt that would happen in my life because most Catholics do not like the idea that men who have let priests marry, if he entered the Church of a seminar Catholic.
In fact, there are already married Catholic priests in the Eastern rite, as well as in the west. I think there is a married priest in Texas, actually. It used to be Episcopalian, and he and his entire parish was converted to Catholicism together, and became a Catholic priest, despite being married.
Celibacy is a discipline today. It is not dogma. Married priests in the past and probably will marry in the future. However, we have married priests means (a) we need more priests, married clergy because they also have to spend time with their wives and children, and being a priest is a 24 / 7 job at this time because there are much work to do and (b), the laity will have to step in and do more work so that the priests have time to spend with their wives and children.
There are some priests who are married. If a clergy of another faith, who is Catholic and is married and wants to be a priest, was allowed to be ordained and remain married. Personally, I think that priests should not marry because then become divided. The Bible speaks of this. The apostle Paul explained why the unmarried state is preferable to the situation for the Christian clergy marriage: “ He that is without the woman, is worried about the things that belong to the Lord, how you can please God. But it is with a woman is concerned about the things of the world, how can please his wife and he is divided.''(1 Cor. 7:32-33).
God bless,
Stanbo
I was praying in the last conference of bishops that the discipline of celibacy is optional. I see the advantages of celibate priests, but there is a shortage of priests in the U.S. that can be solved almost overnight because there are deacons who are trained to act as priests.
I am a married priest and do not see the advantages of being a married priest may be divided among his duties to his family and the Church. I am glad we have a Pope who is open to married priests. God bless!
In Christ
Fr Joseph
I was raised Catholic, but who plays the daughter of a Lutheran minister and military chaplain at 8 or 9 years old, never opposed the idea of the Catholic church change the rules on married priests and got in trouble by express what a teenager Manager.
In theory, a priest has to spend all their time working for the church. And no, despite what some believe, does not work only 1 hour every Sunday, the day of the week I must say that the masses, by the law of the church, if someone is or not, it could teach, serve as a hospital chaplain, or simply to visit sick parishioners, educating engaged couples, instruct Catholic converts, and other things.
If he was married and had children who might have time to spend going to hospitals, could be your family or vice versa. Then there is the support. He would probably have to get a second job like many Protestant pastors this month, as a priest, but usually pays a little, not much and usually belongs to the Rectory of the parish, etc. So no rent or mortgage to worry about things like that, at least traditionally.
If you were married, he and his wife was expected, like other non-Catholics to practice birth control, artificial. Therefore, you may be a great family of the parish to support, or as I say, the need for a second job.
I know that millions of married ministers, rabbis and other works, either only for church or other jobs, and support their families and have time to visit the sick, counsel, and so on are not the richest heads of "Mega Churches". But I think the economy is one of the major reasons why it has not changed in the Catholic Church.
And morality. If it's OK for a priest who is married, then maybe he wants to live with her before marriage, a "big no-no." What about divorce? Many marriages fail, divorce is forbidden in the Catholic church (and I do not think the change, even if the married priests), who break the rules or be in an unhappy marriage of their lives?
I believe the Bible - which is better for full-time ministers of the gospel to remain unmarried as Paul did, for they are not torn between the responsibilities of ministries and the responsibilities of marriage and family. Could this be the reason why the Protestant clergy is one of the highest divorce rates in the occupation?
sorry no time to read.
I have no problem with her unmarried status. the life of a diocesan priest is very difficult and the marriage is stressed survival. here's the really weird …. I have no idea why people who are not priests have problems with this - You do not have to be a priest - is a choice. (not only sympathize screaming)
Priests, for the love of his wife mystical, you should not marry. Bigamy would be in a spiritual sense
IMO. This is my servant, whom I will defend with my life if necessary.
What is the problem with the Catholic priests could marry? As far as I can see, only Catholic priests who create the problem first.
I am not Catholic, but there is a married priest who lives on the block.
He is a former Lutheran pastor, married Lutheran and then converted to Catholocism. Ultimately he became a priest.
I personally do not have a problem with the practice of the priests could marry. However, my friend, Father Joe (chritoiglesia) probably can offer much better understanding of this issue.
Deacons can be married Arnt
I think it should remain a bachelor