Then why aren't there more married priests? And I personally know priests who left the priesthood, and had to, because they got married.
The Church does offer the chalice, usually.
But not always and not until fairly recently. Besides, that had been corrected in subsequent posts. That was NOT the case when I last attended any masses on a regular basis and had not been the custom the entire time I attended mass in my growing up years. I did not persist in insisting that was the case once it was brought to my attention that it had changed since then.
The Church does not teach anything that would lead anyone who knew the teaching to expect that the failure of the Sacred Body to look like flesh or the failure of the Precious Blood to behave like blood serves to contradict the teaching.
Still working on translating that one.
These are ascertainable things, and in all of them false assertions were made.
Whatever happened to unity and consistency of teaching of the Catholic church anyway? If priests are permitted to be married, why is it so pervasive and such pervasive knowledge that Catholic priests are celibate?
Well, formally, of course it cain't be knowledge if it ain't so.
I think the falsehood is able to masquerade as knowledge because people are intellectually lazy, frankly, and gullible.
It is somehow so rewarding to disparage the Catholic Church. Scholars, academics, journalists of opinion, and so forth do so without batting an eye. And certainly sometimes we need a little disparaging.
It takes persistent discipline to more the number of times we advance as certainties what are in fact mere opinions. And the more we do that, the harder it is to remember, "Hey, I might want to check that."
Incidentally, today I am 'FEELING' like the Church is not on my side. Pancake breakfast! NOT health food!
Because Mad Dawg didn't tell you the whole story. Maybe he forgot? Maybe he didn't feel it necessary to explain the special conditions involved. Why don't you ask him?