[frogjerk]

P.S. I first heard that priests were married in the past through a couple I know who converted to Catholicism and that’s what their Catholic priest (in a totally different diocese than I am in) told them. I asked a priest in the diocese I am in about it and he said it was true. So if you are right, then these priests are lying.

Peter was married and so were some of the early priests but so what. What I stated was that the celibacy of the priesthood goes back a long, long way. I never said a married man cannot be a priest. Some priests are married in the Church but what you are failing to understand is that once a priest is ordained he cannot enter into Holy Matrimony, this cannot be changed.

Also, why would we want to throw out the charism of celibacy which builds up the Body of Christ, the Church? It doesn't make any sense.

[jilliane]

Frogjerk wrote: “Peter was married and so were some of the early priests but so what.”

So what? So that was my only point. It used to be. Read the amount of postings here who insulted me for saying that.