To: ebb tide
Speaking as a Catholic, I don’t see a fundamental scriptural requirement for celibate priests. Eastern Orthodox priests can marry.
8 posted on
11/25/2019 5:09:10 PM PST by
PapaBear3625
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To: PapaBear3625
So can Eastern Catholic priests (prior to ordination, just like the Orthodox). Remember Eastern Catholics are under the pope and I believe Pope JPII referred to them as without error.
10 posted on
11/25/2019 5:30:52 PM PST by
JosephW
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To: PapaBear3625
The Eastern Orthodox are not Catholic.
11 posted on
11/25/2019 5:35:12 PM PST by
ebb tide
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To: PapaBear3625
It’s a “Tradition,” which makes it equal to the Bible.
36 posted on
11/25/2019 9:31:31 PM PST by
ConservativeMind
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To: PapaBear3625
would undermine and eventually abolish the sacred Tradition of priestly celibacy in the Latin Church
It is a tradition. Not sure how sacred it is. Did not exist for roughly the first 1000 years of Church history and then was adopted basically for financial reasons (no heirs to compete with for wealth). Nothing in the Scriptures specifically demands it.
40 posted on
11/26/2019 6:54:09 AM PST by
Buckeye McFrog
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To: PapaBear3625
Eastern Orthodox priests can marry. More accurately, the Orthodox ordain married men. Once ordained, they cannot marry again. And bishops are drawn from the ranks of celibate monastics.
45 posted on
11/26/2019 12:18:04 PM PST by
Campion
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