This is something that really makes no sense. Priests who are not married are giving marital and other family oriented advice to those that are? Yet, in other christian religions their church leaders do marry but still serve God as members of their community.
Just a question but you think that marriage might cut down on the bullsh*t that goes on in the church?
"This is something that really makes no sense. Priests who are not married are giving marital and other family oriented advice to those that are?"
Jesus Christ was celibate. John Paul II is celibate. They have written the most beautiful and highest level of spirituality and practicality on the sacrament of Matrimony of any men ever. Have you ever read what the Church teaches regarding this sacrament?
And "No," allowing men to marry will not cut down on the feces going on because heterosexual men are not attracted to boys. Certainly you understand this...
it comes down to the question: "what is the most important thing a priest does?"
If the answer is counseling the married, then you might have a point.
If the answer is acting in person of Christ and leading the celebration of the Eucharist and Liturgy, then you have no point.
Your morally relative argument may make sense to your feelings - does the Church also require adulturer clergy, divorced clergy, homosexual clergy, pedophile clergy, etcetera -all to administer different flavors of Truth that are not defined and require temporal revelation?
Yet, in other christian religions their church leaders do marry but still serve God as members of their community.
Again, morally relative argument... Partial Truth held by pagan or dissenting "christian religions" can not contravene Church teaching. Truth can not contravene Truth -if other "christian religions" contradict Church teaching they are false -they are not new innovative models of Truth...