[NYer]

In case you were wondering, ping!

[Joe 6-pack]

My uncle’s a priest. He hunts.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Is the good padre waiting for the mailman?

[WayneS]

“Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.”

Genesis 9:3

[mrmeyer]

Genesis 1:29-30

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

[Alex Murphy]

There has never been a prohibition against hunting for laymen. However, there is quite a controversial history concerning clerical hunting. The Council of Trent, for example, made the formal distinction between clamorous (clamorosa) hunting and quiet (quieta) hunting. (Session XXIV, 12). "Clamorous hunting" is forbidden to priests. However, "quiet hunting" is allowed.

Clamorous hunting likely refers to the large hunting parties that are sometimes associated with dogs, drinking, and lasciviousness. It is clear that this type of gathering would not be proper for a priest. "Quiet hunting" would be more like laying traps in the woods or going out alone with a deer rifle.

Oh fer cryin' out loud - more evidence that the Council of Trent had nothing better to do.

Related thread:
Priest hunts free of moral conflict - but only when they're in season.

[Brass Lamp]

As a matter of fact, the modern percussion cap was invented by a churchman to improve the ignition rate of his fowler.

[Jeff Chandler]

How about women religious?

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[Lee N. Field]

There has never been a prohibition against hunting for laymen. However, there is quite a controversial history concerning clerical hunting. The Council of Trent, for example, made the formal distinction between clamorous (clamorosa) hunting and quiet (quieta) hunting. (Session XXIV, 12). "Clamorous hunting" is forbidden to priests. However, "quiet hunting" is allowed.

I can't find an image online, but in the 2003 Luther movie, at one point they show Pope Leo and his party involved in "clamourous hunting", chasing a bore down with dogs and men on horseback with javalins.

[nonsporting]

I'm a priest and I hunt:

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:5)

According to scripture ALL believers are members of this priesthood because they are in Christ.

[Hieronymus]

My Bishop, and probably a majority of priests in this diocese, hunt. Last year his excellency bagged a really nice buck on the opening day (he also drives a truck, and one of his ordination presents was a chainsaw). I think that the majority of non-hunting priests here give a special blessing to the hunters at the end of Mass on the first Sunday of deer season.

I live back in the woods, you see....

[rwa265]

Try telling Fr. Joe Classen that priests can’t go hunting. :-)

http://www.huntingforgod.com/page4.html

[rwa265]

Try telling Fr. Joe Classen that priests can’t go hunting. :-)

http://www.huntingforgod.com/page4.html

[RichInOC]

You think this would count as safety orange?

[Seraphicaviary]

The prohibition against hunting in the Council of Trent was because most hunting lands used to be property of the king, and the Vatican did not want priests to be beholden to the king for anything.

The prohibitions of Trent make good reading. One of the more interesting is a prohibition on drinking games, i.e. lining up shots, etc. Just like posting a sign today, it would not be needed unless someone was doing it...

Seraphicaviary