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Pope Francis requests Roman Catholic priests be given the right to get married
Yahoo News ^ | 11/3/2017 | Matilda Long

Posted on 11/03/2017 7:30:50 AM PDT by detective

Pope Francis has requested that Roman Catholic priests be given the right to get married.

The request applies to priests in Brazil, and is on the agenda for an upcoming synod (church council) in the Amazon region.

The controversial move would address the critical shortage of men joining the priesthood

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: anglican; blindsquirrel; brazil; celibacy; christbridechurch; churchdoctrine; easternrites; francis; marriage; marriedclergy; marriedpriests; popefrancis; priests; stoppedclock
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To: detective
Why does he have to "request" anything? He is the pope.

Does he need to ask permission from his subordinates? Can't he just issue a papal decree or something?

41 posted on 11/03/2017 8:45:20 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Biggirl

True, that is in scripture, but since Catholics hold church tradition and scripture as equal authority, who really knows...

Tonuge in cheeck...comment


42 posted on 11/03/2017 8:51:04 AM PDT by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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To: GCC Catholic
“While the Apostles were married (most, John was not), their wives are conspicuously absent in the Scriptures, including Peter's wife.”

At that time in history wives were absent from most written histories. I think the best assumption is that they had normal, conjugal marriages.

“the custom was a corruption of the earlier practice, namely that from the earliest centuries married clergy were to maintain strict continence if their wives lived with them”

I seriously doubt that the majority of married priests ever lived completely celibate marriages. It goes against logic, common sense and human nature.

Martin Luther said celibacy was against human nature and lead to corruption. That is one of the reasons for the popularity of the Protestant reformation.

http://www.lutheranlayman.com/2015/07/martin-luther-celibacy-is-contrary-to.html

43 posted on 11/03/2017 8:55:39 AM PDT by detective
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To: Biggirl
He is married, that is , to the Church.

The church is the bride of Christ, not the bride of the priest.

44 posted on 11/03/2017 9:30:51 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: aimhigh

The Catholic priest is an alter Christus.


45 posted on 11/03/2017 9:34:25 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: detective
1 Tim 4:3 condemns those who make rules, forbidding to marry.

Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

46 posted on 11/03/2017 9:35:44 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: detective

I don’t get why priests don’t marry in the first place. Aren’t they supposed to be Pope-esque? The Pope doesn’t marry. Isn’t the story that the Pope is Peter? Peter had a wife.


47 posted on 11/03/2017 9:40:28 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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To: Salvation
I still think we (the Catholic Church) should follow the model of Christ. Was he married? No!

When was this 'wedding' that ended in a 'd i v o r c e'

... Jeremiah3: 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.They say: Heb. Saying

2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

4Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

5Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

6The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

7And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

48 posted on 11/03/2017 9:41:28 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: aimhigh

I was referring to Christ the Lord, not a priest.


49 posted on 11/03/2017 9:41:48 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: detective

What, Popes don’t get to issue executive orders?


50 posted on 11/03/2017 9:44:05 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Peter had a wife

But Jesus did not and He is the model.

51 posted on 11/03/2017 10:34:31 AM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: detective; Trillian

I want to go back to pre-Vatican II


52 posted on 11/03/2017 10:44:10 AM PDT by Conservative4Life (I'm not too worried, I've read the book and know how it all ends...We win)
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To: detective

Peter was married and according to plain scripture a bishop or Deacon is supposed to have only one wife, which means it is ok to be married.


53 posted on 11/03/2017 11:24:57 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: Conservative4Life

He’s treating the bible like obama treats the constitution.


54 posted on 11/03/2017 11:26:29 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: House Atreides

Only two posts.

FReepers rock.

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55 posted on 11/03/2017 11:28:19 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: 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.


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.


56 posted on 11/03/2017 11:29:00 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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To: Biggirl
The Eastern Rites do allow for married priests. Also the Anglican Rite as well.

And if Priests from those Rites wish to join the Roman Rite they get to bring their wives and kids with them. In the grand scheme of things this is a nothing-burger.


57 posted on 11/03/2017 11:59:04 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: detective
the best assumption is that they had normal, conjugal marriages.

Perhaps, although women feature prominently in the Gospels, especially in John's. But mere speculation makes little for doctrines or disciplines later on.

I seriously doubt that the majority of married priests ever lived completely celibate marriages. It goes against logic, common sense and human nature.

I would think you're right, and the history of the early church bears it out -- It's not right to ask someone to live in such an arrangement. This is why we saw clerical wives placed in monasteries in earlier centuries; and in the later centuries enforcement of celibacy in the West and normalization of non-continent married clergy in the East. But it was the idea of married clerics living together in conjugal relationships with wives that was the later corruption of the older tradition, and in the West, an illicit corruption.

Martin Luther said celibacy was against human nature and lead to corruption. That is one of the reasons for the popularity of the Protestant reformation.

The reasons for the popularity of the Protestant reformation are extremely complex and have less to do with Luther's theological prowess or Biblical truth than their usefulness in the political struggles between Germanic noblemen together with their churchmen vs. the centralized Papacy. While Luther had some complaints that had merit, they could have been addressed from within the Catholic Church (and were in the post-Tridentine era).

Luther's view that celibacy is against human nature and leads to corruption says more subjectively about his own shortcomings and inability to deal with them than about the general state of human nature. Explanations of celibacy not being inconsistent with Scripture come from other voices throughout the history of the Church, including Protestant ones, and ones that view the biological side of that human nature.

58 posted on 11/03/2017 2:29:04 PM PDT by GCC Catholic (Trump doesn't suffer fools, but fools will suffer Trump. Make America Great Again!)
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To: detective
Why not?

    Have we no right to food and to drink? Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas? (I Cor. 9:4,5)

59 posted on 11/03/2017 2:45:38 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: pbear8

Christ has a bride, the Church.


60 posted on 11/03/2017 4:58:56 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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