celebacy in the priesthood does not go back to the beginnings of the church by any stretch.
When talking to my parish priest about family matters I was struck by how the priest just did not get it....he was completely unaware of such problems.
So lets say I want to be married and be a priest....I could become an Anglican priest, get married, then decide to join the Catholic Church as a priest and bingo...married priest...
these is just so much confusion regarding this issue.
What is the confusion?
Except that Apostle Paul, who was unmarried was an apostle.
“When talking to my parish priest about family matters I was struck by how the priest just did not get it.”
What, did he tell you that contraception was bad or something of that sort? Yeah, I’m sure he didn’t ‘get it’.
What do you base that incorrect assertion on? It certainly isn't Scripture or history.
So lets say I want to be married and be a priest....I could become an Anglican priest, get married, then decide to join the Catholic Church as a priest and bingo...married priest...
Number one, 21 of the 22 Churches sui juris which comprise the Catholic Church already ordain, as a norm, married men. Number two, the revolving door scenario you describe is indicative of your ignorance of the formation process and the overall topic at hand.
You wrote:
“celebacy in the priesthood does not go back to the beginnings of the church by any stretch.”
Yes, it does.
Jesus, first and ONLY High Priest of Christianity was celibate.
>> So lets say I want to be married and be a priest....I could become an Anglican priest, get married, then decide to join the Catholic Church as a priest and bingo...married priest... <<
You write as if successfully deceiving people were a given. You’d have to be ordained a bishop who himself was ordained by three bishops who had apostolic succession undisrupted by formal heresy. Of course, for your priestly formation, the Anglicans would have to believe your conversion was sincere. The conservatives — those whose ordination would be meaningful to the Catholic Church — would be the least likely to accept that. Then you’d have to convince your Catholic bishop that your re-conversion was sincere. Yeah, what kind of an idiot to take him for?