In other words, you're not going to address the issues I raised. Boy, am I shocked.Just because Peter had a mother-in-law doesn’t mean that my priest should married now. That’s a stretch. As you have said, the Bible doesn’t really say one way or the other whether priests should be married and so we rely on the teaching of the Church.The recent sex abuse scandals have turned the clergy celibacy from an intrachurch question to a national issue. If you can't see that, then you need to wake up. The Dallas diocese is out millions of dollars that could have gone to good work if the clergy and the laity had just paid attention.
Wrong. The Bible says that clergy may be married. It doesn't require them to be married but it certainly doesn't prohibit them from being married. The Catholic Church is putting a burden on priests that some can't bear, and is causing them to sin as a result. That sin is affecting more than just Catholics.Then why can’t I ask a friend to pray for me after they have died?
Because the Bible specifically prohibits us from trying to contact the dead.Please work on the log in your eye before you criticize the speck in your brother’s eye.
So what log is in my eye? The log of telling the truth, which you don't like to hear?
I believe that the recent tragic problems in our church have grown up in the past 35 years because we have relaxed the rules too much. This is not a cause for more relaxation of the rules. A problem that has developed in the past couple decades does not mean we should change rules that have existed for more than a millennia.
Also, I don’t believe that the ‘burden’ celibacy is too much to bear for anyone who wishes to be a priest. And if it is for that certain person, then he may drop out of the priesthood and become a married man.