Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez, who has since retired as the head of the Congregation, which said ordaining such men would be imprudent and "very risky." imprudent and "very risky."? How about a direct violation to God's holy and sacred word, the Bible?
In Pauls letter to Timothy are the job qualifications to be a minister of God, amongst them: "A man married to one wife."
There is not one verse in the entire bible althorizing the ordanation of homosexuals or women.
What is wrong with religion these days that they claim to be Christians, yet refuse to honor and follow His word? And it is not just Roman Cahtolics, it is any number of Protestant denominations as well
In Pauls letter to Timothy are the job qualifications to be a minister of God, amongst them: "A man married to one wife." "amongst them", yes, but not limited to that one condition. Paul himself chose celibacy and encouraged it.
- 1 Cor 7:6-7
- This I say by way of concession, however, not as a command. Indeed, I wish everyone to be as I am (single? widowed?), but each has a particular gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
- 1 Cor 7:32-34
- I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But a married man is anxious about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is anxious about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in both body and spirit. A married woman, on the other hand, is anxious about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
In Pauls letter to Timothy are the job qualifications to be a minister of God, amongst them: "A man married to one wife." Nobody who seriously thinks about this verse thinks that it means that only married men can enter the presbyterate. Jesus was not married. You do not mean to claim that Jesus was not fit to be priest or bishop, do you? (He's in fact the priest extraordinaire.) St. John was not married, but we know from church history that he served as bishop of Ephesus.