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To: Salvation

The topic of required mandatory clerical celibacy is certainly a policy which should be reviewed.

There is nothing in the Bible mandating celibacy as a prerequisite for service in the priesthood. In fact, priests in the Bible were married men.

The early popes and the overwhelming majority of priests and bishops were married men well until the Middle Ages.

Mandatory clerical celibacy was introduced largely to fight corruption in the Church and prevent the transfer of Church property from father to son.

Orthodox priests are permitted marry, I see no reason why Catholio priests should be denied marriage if they want to.


6 posted on 04/28/2014 7:31:01 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

You are aware, I hope, of many married priests from other denominations who have converted to Catholicism and taken the classes to become a Catholic priest, aren’t you.

We’ve had several in our diocese. I went to one ordination where as the newly ordained priest was blessing people; his wife and grown children were looking on with great admiration.


7 posted on 04/28/2014 7:42:18 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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