They should just let them marry. It won't affect their ability to minister, and in fact, it may even have a positive impact on the sheer number of cases of sexual misconduct.
Besides, making babies is fun!
Or maybe it would just change the type of misconduct. I believe there was a thread posted within the last month on a married priest, Anglican convert, involved in a domestic violence case.
It's only a discipline not a doctrine.
Besides, making babies is fun!
Hey, if marriage and family wasn't a good thing no one would consider it a sacrifice to forgo them.
Careful, here. You don't know that.
I do, however. And it isn't.
-Theo
I'm sure there are things about each segment of Christianity that you or I would find offensive.
That's not important.
What is important is Christ's message...distilled down, it's "don't be a jerk."
No one is forced into celibacy. It is a choice made with free will. The formation process to become a Priest is a lengthy one giving the individual ample opportunity to discern if they are truly called to the discipline. There are 22 Churches sui juris in six separate rites: five Eastern and one Western that in union comprise the Catholic Church. Married men may be ordained in the five Eastern Rites and Bishops in the Eastern Rites are selected exclusively from celibates. The Western Rite, with the exception of the ordination of a relatively few married protestant ministers who have converted to Catholicism and been ordained under Pope John Paul IIs Pastoral Provision, adheres to the discipine of celibacy for the Priesthood. Your absolute statement is absurd and is indicative of your ignorance of the topic.
and in fact, it may even have a positive impact on the sheer number of cases of sexual misconduct.
Not a fact as evidenced by: