There is no mention of wife or children. Widowers can become priests and bishops - I had had a couple over the years. There are a number of married priests in the Church. The two permanent deacons in the two Catholic churches closest to my house are both happily married.
Not churches that came from the reformation.. we still do not have woman elders or deacons..
PCUSA came from the Reformation. The Anglican Church was originally Calvinist, not Lutheran (witness the WCF). The Congregationalists, the Lutherans, many of the Baptists, and so on have women pastors, ministers, and bishops. All children of the Reformation. As a matter of fact, I would be grateful if you tell me which denominations (and their numbers) in the United States do not engage in any of the priestess, bishopess, open homosexual, married homosexual etc innovations that only started to intrude into Christianity about a hundred years ago.
Then there are the number that left to get married
There is no issue with that. I have known several who have and are devout Catholics and Christians to this day. Their service to God has never stopped.
Catholic church has lots of rules..but very few really follow them.. they are double minded and every one looks the other way and pretends the church has moral superiority
Speak for yourself, not the Church, unless they are matters of which you have evidence or knowledge.
I don't know enough of every belief and practice of some of the other Bible-believing churches to be able to speak for them, but as to the SBC, we engage in NONE of the activities you and RnMom have been discussing, such as the above. The SBC is the largest Baptist denomination in the world and the largest "Protestant" (non-Catholic, Bible-believing) denomination in the U.S. with over 16 million members.
Ohh Mark, how Catholic of you...LOL
Priests married for a long time in the Roman church, it was only when they started willing the church property to their kids it became a "spiritual issue "
Under Pope Urban II priests’ wives sold into slavery, children were abandoned.
PCUSA came from the Reformation. The Anglican Church was originally Calvinist, not Lutheran (witness the WCF). The Congregationalists, the Lutherans, many of the Baptists, and so on have women pastors, ministers, and bishops. All children of the Reformation. As a matter of fact,
I would be grateful if you tell me which denominations (and their numbers) in the United States do not engage in any of the priestess, bishopess, open homosexual, married homosexual etc innovations that only started to intrude into Christianity about a hundred years ago.
All the churches that are still Calvinist or holiness
Those that wandered off into\arminianism
If you want to play the Peter was not married game..we could play the bible does not clearly exclude women for the diaconate or even preaching ...
Calvinist churches (reformation churches)do not ordain women or allow them to teach men ..
Catholic church has lots of rules..but very few really follow them.. they are double minded and every one looks the other way and pretends the church has moral superiority
So where are all the Catholics on Sunday? (attendance is a RULE of the church), How many 2 child families do you see? Half of Catholics see a priest at their first communion and again for the last rites, some may make it for Christmas or Easter ...but basically they are cafeteria catholics picking and choosing the doctrine they like .