First, lets just chill with the CINO lib Catholic comments...!
In my first post I said i was FOR celibacy of priests and pastors and made my point VERY clear.
However, yes the church’s position is “rigid’ in the sense it insists priests are celibate, and thus enhance the rigidity ( no choice about celbacy, regardless of its virtues) when they called married priests ( regardless of where they came from) “exceptions”. You have “exceptions” to a strict , IE rigid, doctrine.
It IS a doctrine...and a discipline....You can not be a priest AND get married, or be married and decide to be a priest...( uh, excuse me, except for the “exceptions”).
You wrote:
“However, yes the church’s position is “rigid’ in the sense it insists priests are celibate, and thus enhance the rigidity ( no choice about celbacy, regardless of its virtues)...”
Everyone has a choice about celibacy. Period. Everyone.
“...when they called married priests ( regardless of where they came from) “exceptions”. You have “exceptions” to a strict , IE rigid, doctrine.”
It ain’t doctrine. It wasn’t doctrine. It can’t be doctrine.
“It IS a doctrine...and a discipline....”
Nope. It is JUST a discipline. Period.
“You can not be a priest AND get married,”
But wait! There’s an exception - just to make your head spin. A priest who leaves the active priesthood with permission from the Vatican can marry. He is always considered a priest in the character of his soul, however.
“or be married and decide to be a priest...( uh, excuse me, except for the “exceptions”).”
Yes, exceptions: the Eastern Churches, the Anglican, Lutheran and some Methodist converts.
There will be more exceptions in the future too I bet.
I simply observed that "rigid" is the first thing that liberals say about anything they don't like. Like "racist", it is often used to stifle discussion. Also like "racist", however, it doesn't work as well as it used to, because it's been overused.
I might pick a different word, just to avoid the connotations that that word has picked up.
However, you do have your facts wrong, as others have pointed out to you.