I’m not Catholic, but I have, over the years, told 2 or3 Catholics about priests historically having been married, and they look at me like I’m crazy. The only benefit I can see for non-married priests, is that the church would have to pay them a living wage if they were married. The Bible says, “it is better to marry than to burn”. And what’s even worse, men who become deacons have to swear not to remarry if their wives die. What is the point of that? Even the Bible says a bishop should be the husband of one wife. Apparently, they’d rather cut off their nose to spite their face, as short of priests as they are. And now that they accept Episcopalian and Russian Orthodox, those priests are allowed to marry. Oh, well, as I said, I’m not Catholic, but things like that don’t make sense to me.
I catch heat for it, but I don’t think it’s natural for a man to go throughout his life without marital relations