You want vocations to increase? Run the false prophet devil’s out of the Church, starting with him.
Problem solved.
i guess that means men married to each other, too
a little more specifics...married to who (whom ?)
Why not?
Most MARRIED men I know have more religious beliefs than unmarred
This has to be the first pronouncement (my word) that I’ve heard from this Pope that makes sense.There are already some married priests...Roman Catholic priests who have pledged fidelity to Rome...in most Western countries (Britain,Ireland,US,Canada,etc).
Same sex marriage too, or else it’s discrimination!
Clerical celibacy was imposed by human beings over 1,000 years after the Birth of Christ. It is not part of the Ten Commandments, nor part of Christ’s teachings, and should have ABSOLUTELY no indictment on whether Christ is our Savior or who gets into Heaven.
The Eastern Catholic churches already have married priests and there are also the former Anglicans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_ordinariate
What, no polygamists? I guess this Pope is holding the line after all.
Soon Catholicism will not have ANY standards of behavior
Always found it interesting where unmarried men give marital advice to a couple (man and woman) planning on marriage and marriage counseling after.
Married priests is good. The Greek orthodox priests can marry. They do not have the problems of molestation we have in the church of Rome.
Well, Peter himself was married.
And Paul laid out the requirements for elders and deacons to be married men.
Since married clergy never has been against any kind of law God instituted, there’s no real reason or rational justification for a celibate clergy.
It would solve the priest shortage.
Kind of a flimsy foundation!
Never fear; if things get TOO out of hand; Mary will make yet another curtain call and toss out 15 MORE promises to get the CHURCH back in line.
(Given to St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche)
| 1 | Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall receive powerful graces. |
| 2. | I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the Rosary. |
| 3. | The Rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies |
| 4. | It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of people from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means. |
| 5. | The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish. |
| 6. | Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying Himself to the consideration of its Sacred Mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise Him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just, he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life. |
| 7. | Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church. |
| 8. | Those who are faithful to recite the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the Saints in Paradise. |
| 9. | I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the Rosary. |
| 10. | The faithful children of the Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven. |
| 11. | You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary. |
| 12. | All those who propagate the Holy Rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities. |
| 13. | I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death |
| 14. | All who recite the Rosary are my children, and brothers and sisters of my only Son, Jesus Christ. |
| 15. | Devotion of my Rosary is a great sign of predestination. |
"The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem,
no matter how difficult it is, wheter temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families...that cannot be solved by the Rosary.
There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary."
Sister Lucia dos Santos
Not surprised. Th Eastern Rite Catholics/Orthodox Churches have married priests.