That statement indicates that you possess a very poor comprehension of Scripture. More than likely no one has ever read to you those passages of Scripture where celibacy is highly praised.
Paul talks about his celibate life, how he doesn’t have a family to worry about, but he goes on to say that people should marry if they couldn’t remain celibate.
St. Paul also speaks of serving God without impediment. I guess you simply glossed over that part of 1 Corinthians.
St. Paul’s advice to Timothy calling the forbidding of marriage a “doctrine of devils”.
The Church doesn't forbid marriage unlike the Gnostics, Marcionites, Encratites, Manicheans, and other ancient heretics to whom St. Paul was referring who absolutely forbid marriage to anyone due to their belief that all flesh emanated from an evil principle. The Church asks those seeking ordination in the Latin Rite to choose between having a family and sacrificing all, as the Apostles did, to serve the Lord. By the way please provide the "doctrine of devils" passage citation.
To say that a priest can better serve the Lord if he’s unmarried doesn’t make sense.
Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul disagree.
It really hurts the Lord’s work when committed Christians don’t have children.
It hurts the Lord when self proclaimed Christians fail to discern the difference between the common priesthood of the believer and the ministerial Priesthood of the ordained.
Your response to me that I have “very poor comprehension of scripture” would have validity if you had posted a scripture that backed the Catholic belief that church leaders are forbidden to marry.
Doesn’t the Catholic Church look at Peter as the head of the church? He was married because the bible says, “When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.” Matthew 8:14 You just wrote that Jesus Christ disagreed with what I said, but he chose Peter as one of his disciples, and Catholics believe he’s the first pope.
If I “glossed over 1 Corinthians”, as you say, then please post the scripture that says Priests/Rabbis/Church Leaders are to remain celibate. In 1 Timothy 3:2, it states...”Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.”
If the Catholic Church doesn’t forbid marriage, then are you saying that a Catholic Priest would be allowed to marry, and continue to carry out his duties as Priest?
Tertullian is an early church father, and he was married.