For worship and personal service...They however forbid clergy be single, unmarried, childless servants...
God forbids clergy be single, unmarried and childless? Is that in Scripture?
I don't know what that means. Jesus plainly commends celibacy for "all who can accept it."
"For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it."According to St. Paul:
I would that all men were even as myself; but every one hath his proper gift from God .... But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they so continue, even as I.Paul was a bishop. Jesus is the eternal High Priest. The pope holds the office of the prime minister of the eternal House of David ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7, i.e., the Church), with the power to "bind and loose," given by Jesus himself. It is fitting for the Church to make celibacy a priestly discipline.
They however forbid clergy be single, unmarried, childless servants...
"The husband of one wife" means that a priest cannot be twice married. The statement does not mean that the early Church required marriage.
Since you both seem to agree that Jesus and Paul commend celibacy for "those who can accept it," where are celibates-for-the-kingdom-of-God in Protestantism?