[MeganC]

Too bad that priests don’t have any personal experience with being married to a woman.

[Salvation]

Oh, they get lots of stories from married people, believe me.

[Last Dakotan]

I took a 3 credit course on Marriage at the Jesuit university I attended back in the '80's.
It was co-taught by a Jesuit and a married couple.

The Jesuit could give you all the theological explanations and theory. The married couple taught the practical stuff.

[amihow]

What? You have to have been married to a woman to know what the malle female issues are? What about all the marriages you have seen in life and the incredible experiences of hearing about marriages in the counseling of parishioners and the intimate knowledge from confession?

[Paulie]

Priests should not be married.

To perform their duties properly, it’s a 24/7 routine. They do much more than celebrate the Sacred Mass.

The last thing they need and the congregation needs is for him to be distracted by a family. That’s assuming the family is a normal one. Think of what happens with a dysfunctional family.

I can’t understand why so many people, many of whom are not even Catholics themselves, get all bent out of shape about Priests being married.

If a man wants to serve on the Altar and be married, he can become a Deacon.

Incidentally, there are plenty of married people who get paid to council others in their troubled marriage who give extremely biased and incorrect ‘advice’. They do more harm than good.

[Mom MD]

Yeah. I don’t think a book on marital advice has a lot of credibility coming from an order that eschews marriage