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To: Polycarp
Peter, and many of the rest of the original 12 apostles were married. God created marriage. Priests can marry if they wish. Nothing prohibits them from doing so.
37 posted on 06/14/2002 2:25:56 PM PDT by Mark17
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To: Mark17
Um...it's part of the agreement they make when they become a priest. If they don't like that part of it, then they don't have to become a priest...simple as that.
85 posted on 06/15/2002 12:20:47 AM PDT by IrishRainy
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To: Mark17
If you really believe that "Peter, and many of the rest of the original 12 apostles were married," here is your chance to instruct us poor Biblically ignorant Catholics who preserved the Bible (all of it and not the truncated form which left out the books of the OT inconvenient to the reformation) and passed copies to you guys.

Answer me this:

Name each of the 12 apostles and, for each one, NAME the wife and give a Scriptural reference demonstrating that each specific couple lived together as man and wife after each apostle was called by Christ to follow him.

Next, although God is the actual author of all of Scripture, St. Paul was the penman of much of the New Testament. He is often referenced as an Apostle and was certainly a successor of them. Give us the same information and Scriptural references on St. Paul.

Remember no forbidden "traditions of men", no Scriptural "interpretations", no forbidden adding or detracting from the words of Scripture. Show me and the other Catholics how the Bible speaks for itself in this regard. If you cannot, then concede that your argument is "unScriptural" or explain why it is not unScriptural.

God certainly created marriage. God also created beasts with cloven hooves and ordered Jews not to eat them. Priests, if we are talking about normative priests of the Roman rite of the Roman Catholic Church cannot legitimately marry because each and every one (other than Lutheran and Episcopalian married clergy admitted to the Church and to the Catholic priesthood) have taken solemn vows of chastity and obedience, both of which prohibit their marriage after ordination as does Canon Law. What Peter (and his successors) have bound on earth, shall be bound in heaven, and what he or they have loosed on earth shall be loosed in heaven. The vows may be loosed by the pope, individually or collectively. Priestly celibacy is disciplinary and not doctrinal, like the old mandatory meatless Friday rule and, like that rule may be abolished at any time. Of course, even the pope has no authority to require priests TO marry or to marry some specific woman or her to marry a priest.

103 posted on 06/18/2002 11:06:55 PM PDT by BlackElk
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