Why is this trolling? We HAVE married priests in the Eastern Rite of the ROMAN Catholic Church. Our Eastern Orthodox and Anglican brothers have done this for centuries without a problem. The Church itself has see-sawed on the question for almost all of its history. Peter himself, the rock on which the Church was built was a married man. Was it not God himself who said “it is not good for Man to be alone”? and is marriage not a holy sacrament because we see it as a blessed and good thing? So why do we deny this to our priests?
I’ve seen a lot of good men, holy men, men who were truly gifted in ministry leave the priesthood because they wanted to have expression of the urge that every human being has hard-wired into them, the urge to love, to procreate and have children.
If we believe that God calls the best of us to be priests, then isn’t denying them the right to have offspring counter-productive to the human race?
Do you understand what a vow is? They choose or they choose not. Very simple concept.
Deal with reality.
Amen...excellant rebuttal!