Scripture isn’t the only legitimate basis for something?
Says quite a lot about the Catholic mindset.
What’s Calvinism have to do with it anyway?
So show us some Catholic church documents where it is stated that the apostles/disciples left their wives and kids behind...
You're quite right. It actually does. It says that the Catholic mind will never accept the protestant novelty of the Deposit of Faith being cleaved in half with Sacred Tradition separated from Sacred Scripture.
Well, first of all, you're beginning with an illogical premise and proceeding perfectly logically to an illogical conclusion, which is a dangerous thing to do. ~ Donald Rumsfeld
Which is why whenever you begin a reply with, "[S]how us..." it's rejected on its face. I will never accept the premise that I need to prove anything sola scripturally . Sometimes for the sake of argument I'll do it, just for the heck of it, but never forget the protestant premise is always rejected.
Protestantism is like an artifically constructed maze with an "enter here" sign. Catholicism is the bulldozer that razes said maze to the ground.
Besides, even if I were to demonstrate to you that a doctrine of the Catholic faith was scripturally sound (to your satisfaction, obviously) what are you prepared to do about it?
What’s Calvinism have to do with it anyway?
Well, assuming that a calling to the priesthood involves free will (or the lack thereof), which is a moral choice and therefore, by calvinistic standards, predestined by God and void of human free choice then I suppose all vocations to the priesthood should, by calvanistic standards, be accepted as predestined, regardless of any external factors. So if a man says he has a calling to the priesthood and to the married life he should be free to enter the priesthood unencumbered. Same for the practicing homosexual.