simply a church rule...nothing wrong with marriage, there are MANY married Catholic priests....but the rule says if you want to become a priest, you must remain celibate and you must be MALE...
simply a church rule...nothing wrong with marriage, there are MANY married Catholic priests....but the rule says if you want to become a priest, you must remain celibate and you must be MALE...
a non-biblical rule....one of many by catholicism.
from catholic answers:
Further, in the Latin rite there are a few married men, converted ministers from other faiths, who are ordained to the Catholic priesthood. This, however, is not common. Finally, in neither the Latin rite nor the Eastern rites do priests (or deacons) marry after they have been ordained, except in extraordinary circumstances.
are you really familiar with what catholicism teaches??
>>but the rule says if you want to become a priest, you must remain celibate and you must be MALE...<<
It seems the Eastern Orthodox got the marriage and family requirements but Rome did not;
1 Timothy 3 King James Version (KJV)
3 This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.