Aren’t priests supposed to take vows of celibacy? Aren’t they supposed to be unaffected by worldly things like sex and only be concerned with the soul and afterlife?
13 posted on 06/06/2009 9:21:29 AM PDT by Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
The Swedish word präst, "priest," is used in Sweden for all ordained ministers, whereas we Lutherans in America would use the word "pastor." Being a "priest," in Swedish Lutheranism, does not carry with it the requirement of mandatory celibacy that medieval Roman Catholicism came up with.
Jag är präst, "I am a pastor," a Swedish-American Lutheran pastor.
15 posted on 06/06/2009 9:30:39 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson
(Lutheran pastor, LCMS)