Comments on: So what do you think the Catholic priest who left the church so he could marry?

By: eric k

eric k — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:29 +0000

I think he was being honest with himself and the Church.
If you can not comply with the restrictions of the Catholic priesthood should not be a Catholic priest, regardless of their position on whether the church should or should not allow the clergy to marry.

By: Shar B

Shar B — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:29 +0000

The Catholic Church teaching on celibacy is not a teaching of the Bible. 1 Timothy 4:3 says :…" say it's okay to be married. The Apostle Peter, who is considered the first pope of the Catholic Church, was a married man. The Catholic priesthood is composed of many older men with very few entering the priesthood to take its place. Many probably do what this young priest did, and switch.

By: ballcrus

ballcrus — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:29 +0000

I think it should have become an Eastern Catholic priest in his place. But celibacy should remain in the Latin rite.
I Corinthians 7:7-8, "I wish all were as I myself (celibate) - but each has his own gift from God, one this way, and another after that. But I say to the unmarried and the widows. It's good for them if they continue, even as I. "

By: Kym

Kym — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:29 +0000

A true vocation to the priesthood is a gift and a calling from God and when someone called to the priesthood of God to provide the priest with the graces necessary to live their vocation. I would say the possibility that this was not to call this man.

By: cristoig

cristoig — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:29 +0000

Jesus and Paul teaches the provision of celibacy for clergy. Of course, from the married clergy in the Protestant Church are many times more likely to be married priests pedophiles, pedophilia is expected to increase one follows his logic. God bless!
In Christ
Fr Joseph

By: The Odd Job Man

The Odd Job Man — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:29 +0000

I am glad that pedophilia does not seem to have always heard.
Good luck to him.
This particular church rule is ridiculous, problematic, self-destructive and without a good reason.

By: River of Life

River of Life — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:29 +0000

I'm happy for him and only those who are called to be celibate, you must do

By: Devils's Advocate

Devils's Advocate — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:29 +0000

More power to him.

By: jonny s

jonny s — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:29 +0000

I would say something.

By: Stanbo

Stanbo — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:20:29 +0000

Catholic priests do not marry because, while Christ indeed approve of marriage for the Christian clergy, both prefer not to marry. He made this clear when he praised the Apostles to stop “ todos''a continue, saying: “ Everyone who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother, or wife, or children , or lands for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.''(Matthew 19:27-29). Furthermore, Jesus explains why some do not marry, saying that "some because they have renounced marriage for the sake of kingsom of heaven." The apostle Paul explained why the unmarried state is preferable to been married for Christian clergy: “ He who is without a wife, takes care of the things that belong to the Lord, how to please God. But the one with a woman, cares for worldly things, how to please his wife, is divided.''(1 Cor. 7:32-33). In other words, marriage is good - that Christ did on one of the sacraments of his church - but it is not conducive to the full time that corresponds to those who submit to another of the holy sacraments of Christ - that of Holy Orders. Still, the single state of the Catholic priesthood is not an inflexible law - under certain conditions, a priest can be without this law.
God bless,
Stanbo