The New Testament required clergymen to be married:
1 Tim 3:1 This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work.
1 Tim 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;
1 Tim 3:3 not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
1 Tim 3:4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence
1 Tim 3:5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);
1 Tim 3:6 not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
1 Tim 3:7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
The New Testament also warns us that requirements of celibacy are a characteristic of false teachers who have departed from the faith and are demonically influenced:
1 Tim 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,
1 Tim 4:2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
1 Tim 4:3 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.
Incorrect. St. Paul was unmarried. Christ - the ultimate role model and ideal of the ministry was also unmarried.
St. Paul's episcopal specifications rule out divorced men from the ministry - he was not disqualifying himself.
The New Testament also warns us that requirements of celibacy are a characteristic of false teachers who have departed from the faith
No, it says that teachers who forbid marriage are in error. The Catholic Church does not forbid marriage. I'm married and I'm a Catholic in good standing.
No Catholic is required to be celibate.