In The Arena: Priestly Celibacy

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[mmmcounts]

Some Catholic priests (in certain rites) are allowed to have families right now. Not many, and not in the Latin rite, but still- it's no longer forbidden for all Catholic priests. There's some flexibility now, and instead of a Magisterium that permits or forbids in every instance, it can depend on the long-standing tradition of a specific rite.

This is nice and all, of course. But doesn't that kind of poke at the more blanket decisions of past Magisteriums?

[TimotheosCauvin]

Hm? What about: Married bishops/presbyters and deacons in 1 Timothy 3 ... anyone?! Peter's mother-in-law (Mark 1:29)? I mean, come on - the first pope was married obviously! ;-)

To be sure, there is celibacy in the New Testament. But it's certainly not the conditio sine qua non of a vocation to the priesthood.

[SerJahPhoto]

The catholic church is not capable to function properly in the free-speech democratic society.

In the medieval times, the priest could rape a woman and right after that he could accuse her in being a witch or a protestant and burn her alive.

They should either disband this satanic organization or restore the inquisition, if they can.

[pjdpelham]

Levite priest and six classes of priests free to marry. The Priesthood must be restored.

[LiturgicalChants]

I have met several ex-episcopal ministers who are now pastoral provision catholic priests who are married who have had FAR more favourable experiences to being married priests than has Fr Richard Cipolla. FAR less conflicts and rejection If they support a celibate priesthood it is because they know it is a big change beyond their control and are loyal to hierachy which is good. But most of them are either neutral on it or support the allowance of married men in principle or theoretically.

[LiturgicalChants]

Hearing "priestess" on this program dressed in a man's suit describing an eastern presybytera (priests wife) as subservient to her husband is one of the incomprehensible bigoted highlights of my life.

[LiturgicalChants]

NO! a married Eastern Catholic or Orthodox priest is NOT that different a cultural historically ...It's not THAT different a world.... It is the same world and the same church (or at least it once was). If today there is a difference between West and East the majority of it is because of the humanistic secular enlightenment neo paganism that the west has gradually taken on since the scholasticism and mercantilism of the 13th to 19th centuries AD.

[LiturgicalChants]

Where was a married Melkite Eastern Catholic priest when you need one....That is who they unfairly left off this program. Typical latin/protestant western bias living in their own self created world which may eventually implode if Eastern orthodoxy in the US and West Europe receives enough converts.

[carthage397]

".....Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.", and this was written at the very beginning of the 2nd century

[carthage397]

Ignatius, the bishop of antioch who was martyred in 110AD and was a disciple of the Apostle John wrote many times on the role of the heriarchy in the church. in the 8th chapter in his letter to the Smyrnaeans (not the bible but a valid historical christian document) states "See that you all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God.......