To: dawn53
We know Peter was married (how do you have a MIL if youre not married)
I don't have a lot to add to the other thoughtful responses to your question. However, there is no evidence that's Peter's wife was even alive at the time of Our Lord's Ministry. It is odd that a mother-in-law would be mentioned, but neither wife nor children. Widowers, of course, can be priests without impediment.
18 posted on
05/24/2009 4:59:52 AM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
(we also have the duty to avoid prostituting our Catholic identity by appeals to phony dialogue)
To: Dr. Sivana; dawn53
It is odd that a mother-in-law would be mentioned, but neither wife nor children. And also, when Christ cured Peter's mother in law of a fever, she rose up and waited on them.
If Peter's wife had been alive at the time, it would have been her place to wait on Christ and the disciples, not his mother in law. So it seems probably that he was a widower.
24 posted on
05/24/2009 5:20:18 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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