[biblewonk]

No one has said Scripture requires them be celibate but it is recommended and it is a matter of Church obedience.

Show me where the bible recommends that a Christian Priest should be celebate? Remember that I was accused of not knowing the bible and now that I'm asking for chapter and verse everyone is backing away from the bible, again.

[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "Show me where the bible recommends that a Christian Priest should be celibate?"

I guess you missed it once before allow me to recap from my post #163

From the Gospel of Matthew 19:12

For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it.

Care to venture a guess who said it? Go on take a guess.

[BlackElk]

Catholics back away from what those not catechized in the Catholic Faith may (even in good will) BELIEVE that Scripture says. In any event, the Bible, whatever it may have pleased Fr. Luther to believe, is NOT the sole guideline of Catholicism. The "reformed" argue everything as though their particular respective notions as to the meaning of Scripture were somehow dispositive of all questions religious. They are not.

Just another "ships passing in the night" situation masquerading as an argument.

You are clueless as to Catholicism. Why should any Catholic settle for the Gospel according to Schmidlap or whomever was distorting Scripture through a "reform" prism lately. The Teaching Magisterium trumps Schmidlap or whomever anytime. If you prefer the Scxhmidlap interpretation or your own, have a nice day but don't expect Catholics to be impressed by your presumptions of Scriptural competence to declare Scriptural meaning to those who know better.