Married clergy or not married clergy has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TENETS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The Apostles Creed tells EVERYTHING that Catholics believe.’Period.
Anything else is Man-made and not the dogma of Catholicism.
Priests were married up to the eleventh century, I believe, and the MEN in the Church made other decisions. If they are allowed to marry now, it wouldn’t bother me one bit.
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I thought it was the letter in Acts chapter 15.
Doesn’t matter what pope or other bad bishops do. This is Jesus’ Church and we follow Jesus!
At mass, I don’t care if the priest is a great orator or he stutters, I don’t care if the ministrant priest has flaws (he WILL - he’s human) - for me the critical part is that we have the HIGH PRIEST - Jesus there, present on the altar as High Priest and sacrifice.
Though the thing about the priests is a discipline - and only in the Latin rite of the Church. The Syro-malabar, the Maronites etc. all have married priests.
In the Western world this was after people looked at the holiness of monks and asked for the same