Cardinal Dolan would love to be married with kids

Status
Not open for further replies.
He is absolutely right, and that is in part exactly why so many faithful have either left the Church or have issues with some of those in charge.
 
It’s a great interview. The text of the article covers all the essential points, but I watched the video too. The journalists asked a wide range of questions about the Church, and Cardinal Dolan answered well.

I hadn’t heard it before, what Cardinal Dolan said about celibates being different from bachelors, citing Pope Paul VI, and explaining that they “want to be a father and want to be a spouse, and they transfer it to their allegiance to the church, which is their family.”
 
Cardinal Dolan had a different calling. What he probably meant was had he not had the calling to become a (celibate) priest, he would have loved to have been married with kids. There is nothing wrong with what he said. He did not say he would love to be married with kids now, but rather he would have loved.
 
Last edited:
As I’ve said in another thread, to be a priest you need to have or develop the desire to be a father, so as you can be a Spiritual Father to lay persons.
 
CorydonMundi said:
Then why’d he become a priest knowing the rules?
Click to expand...
Surely this shows the beauty of his vocation - a willingness to sacrifice his desire for physical fatherhood in favour of spiritual fatherood.
Beryllos said:
I hadn’t heard it before, what Cardinal Dolan said about celibates being different from bachelors, citing Pope Paul VI, and explaining that they “want to be a father and want to be a spouse, and they transfer it to their allegiance to the church, which is their family.”
Click to expand...
What he says is true - a good priest should be a man who would, but for his priesthood, make a good father. Being celibate isn’t about having the freedom to do what I want for my sake (as it can be in bachelorhood) but rather it’s about allowing me to devote my life to my ministry. That not to say that the two are necessarily mutually exclusive or that married priests are somehow inferior or neglecting their ministry; but it does however emphasise the sacrificial nature of celibacy - a sacrifice made out of love for God and His Church.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top