I don’t mean to offend, but I run across Catholics all of the time who march in lock step with everything that comes out of the Vatican.
In turn, I am often accused of being a heretic, or horrors! an evil Protestant.
I stick with the Bible. That’s how I practice my faith. I am a Bible-believing Christian who happens to be a Catholic.
I apologize if I have offended. I have been called worse by many uber-Catholics around here who think the Church can do no wrong.
Fact is the policy compulsory clerical celibacy, is not etched in stone and has always been subject to change.
Me too. But the label was in reply to post #45 which didn't give off any uber-Catholicism odors. I don't mind you calling marshmallow "brainwashed" if it is context with the post being replied to or if there is a reason given. You did not offend me in the least despite me being an heretic evil Protestant.
The Catholic Church has married clergy in its Eastern Rites; the Latin Rite doesn’t have it. The fact that the original priests (the Apostles) all died as martyrs (except John) is enough cause for an unmarried priesthood. Many priests martyred by Communism or Nazism may not have accepted that fate if families could be used as leverage against them.