[misterrob]

It means exactly what I said. What qualifies someone who isn't married to give advice to soneone who is? Telling people how to be better parents when they themselves know nothing of the day to day struggles of rasing a kid? Why not just say that you stayed at a Holiday Inn Express the night before? And again, other christian religions allow the church leaders to marry. They live their lives, they raise families and still serve God.

I have met priests who have had women on the side. And, let's get out of denial about the amount of gays who enter the priesthood. Pedophiles are a whole different issue.

[Mershon]

"What qualifies someone who isn't married to give advice to soneone who is?"

Based upon this same "logic," why should children listen to their parents? They have never been parents before and are "practicing" on their first-born. Why should the first-born listen to them?

The reason they are qualified is that the Church is wiser than any individuals. Based upon the current societal demise, I would think it should be obvious that whatever it is that parents are attempting to to do, (Oh, those who stay married) is simply not working.

Read what the Church teaches and apply it. For most, cutting off God's grace (through use of contraception) is probably the primary reason why things aren't working.

"And again, other christian religions allow the church leaders to marry. They live their lives, they raise families and still serve God."

And their divorce rates are HIGHER than the general population. And how is it exactly that they are serving God? By teaching heresy to their congregations in a schismatic "faith community"? Come again?

[sempertrad]

What qualifies someone who isn't married to give advice to soneone who is? Telling people how to be better parents when they themselves know nothing of the day to day struggles of rasing a kid?

What qualifies a doctor who has never had a brain tumor to give advice to his patient who does? How can a married secular "marriage counsellor" try and help mend a marriage in trouble, when his own marriage is full of happiness? Haven't you ever given good advice to a friend even though you'd never experienced his predicament?

Its study, personal experience and prayer. Priests are not men beamed in from outer space. They grew up in familes. They had parents who they observed and learned from. They have married siblings and friends who share their experiences. They realize they may not be able to completely relate to every problem they are asked to help with, but who can?

[Conservative til I die]

What qualifies someone who isn't married to give advice to soneone who is? Telling people how to be better parents when they themselves know nothing of the day to day struggles of rasing a kid?

That's kinda silly logic since all parents weren't parents either until they actually had kids. There's no special diploma that anyone gets when they have kids that makes them qualified parents.

Being a parent is about human nature.