IMHO, that would be a good thing.
Well,there is no biblical command requiring unmarried priests.I also find no biblical requirements or justification for all those “holy orders” such as Jesuits.Monks and nuns life was not part of Jewish culture , unless I misread . And Jesus Christ was born and lived as a Jew !
I cannot understand why not. Women are truly the other half of us men. And as Christ said, the two shall become 1 flesh.
There is absolutely no sound Biblical argument that states otherwise, and as a matter of fact, when Paul was laying out the requirements, they involved a wife.
My sister works for a parish that has a married with grown children priest. He used to be a Lutheran minister who converted and has his own parish who love him.
Every single person, of any faith or none, or group that supports abortion, ‘gay marriage’, and priestesses/female clergy also invariably hates the Catholic’s discipline of male celibacy for clergy and think it should end. That the discipline of the Latin rite Catholics should be ended is one of the very few things where some conservative Christians and invariably all of the liberal humanistic sorts will agree. There’s not one liberal group out there that likes the discipline and thinks it should end.
Freegards
Pure speculation. It won’t happen.
Now is not the time. You allow married Priests and within 10 years you will have female Priests too.
I say let them serve while married. Having a supportive partner will help stabilize that priest.
I would guess it’s more difficult to remain chaste in today’s world than it was hundreds of years ago. The internet has made the world a much smaller,less naive place.
Ok, let them be married but keep Cannon 277.
Can. 277 §1. Clerics are obliged to observe perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the kingdom of heaven and therefore are bound to celibacy which is a special gift of God by which sacred ministers can adhere more easily to Christ with an undivided heart and are able to dedicate themselves more freely to the service of God and humanity.
§2. Clerics are to behave with due prudence towards persons whose company can endanger their obligation to observe continence or give rise to scandal among the faithful.
Why not? It is not prohibited in the NT.
I thought y'all already do that. At least that is what several Freeper Catholics have said.
New?
They used to be able to get married.
It would simply be going back to an earlier practice of the church. It wasn’t wrong then. Why would it be now?
And it certainly would open up a whole new pool of much needed men for the ministry.
This I agree with
Might purge the homos who are at least a huge minority