Catholic church prohibits priests to marry?

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Is it a law of the Church that after the priests are ordained they are no longer allowed to marry?

And if yes is the answer then wouldn’t you call that a “prohibition?”

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Latin Rite Catholic priests have to be celibate in most cases. A converted pastor of a Protestant denomination for example can be ordained if he is married.

The East and the West has the priest married first then ordained, so an ordained man cannot marry.

Priestly celibacy is only a discipline in the Latin Rite from my knowledge. Other Catholic Rites allow married men to be ordained. Priestly celibacy is encouraged in all Rites, but is not necessary.
 
It is something that can be changed. It is not written in stone. It just has not happened. I’ll leave that to the Pope.
 
Can. 1087 Those in sacred orders invalidly attempt marriage.
Can. 1078 §1. The local ordinary can dispense his own subjects residing anywhere and all actually present in his own territory from all impediments of ecclesiastical law except those whose dispensation is reserved to the Apostolic See.

§2. Impediments whose dispensation is reserved to the Apostolic See are:

1/ the impediment arising from sacred orders or from a public perpetual vow of chastity in a religious institute of pontifical right;
A dispensation for deacons is possible. However, a dispensation for priests is only given after the priest has been laicized.
 
jamil_joseph02 said:
Is it a law of the Church that after the priests are ordained they are no longer allowed to marry?

And if yes is the answer then wouldn’t you call that a “prohibition?”

Thanks.
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The Preisthood is Celibate and everyone entering into knows that upfront, … any decision to move forward to Ordination is theirs with full consent and knowledge of what that involves.

… hearing confession is part of the Priesthood as well, they will be expected to accept this as a Priest too.
 
jamil_joseph02 said:
Is it a law of the Church that after the priests are ordained they are no longer allowed to marry?
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Married men cannot be receive the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood (in the Latin Rite and with a few exceptions), and once ordained a priest cannot receive the sacrament of matrimony (unless laicized and dspensed).
jamil_joseph02 said:
And if yes is the answer then wouldn’t you call that a “prohibition?”
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No, I would not call it a prohibition.
 
jamil_joseph02 said:
Is it a law of the Church that after the priests are ordained they are no longer allowed to marry?

And if yes is the answer then wouldn’t you call that a “prohibition?”

Thanks.
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No, because the discipline is freely accepted.

The scriptural passage you might be thinking of refers to heretical sects which considered marriage a sinful state and which prohibited all of its members from marriage. That’s not a Catholic belief.
 
jamil_joseph02 said:
Is it a law of the Church that after the priests are ordained they are no longer allowed to marry?

And if yes is the answer then wouldn’t you call that a “prohibition?”

Thanks.
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I chose one wife and vowed to remain faithful to her.

Priests of the Latin Rite have chosen to respond to God’s call and vowed to remain celibate.

Should they later choose to break that vow, they cannot retain their priestly faculties.

We choose. The Church expects us to be faithful to what we have vowed.
 
Dirk_Skene said:
I know the thing about women priests is, but Roman Rite priests marring? I have never seen or heard the 1st thing on the book being closed on that.
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The teaching forbidding women priests is infallible. HOWEVER… the teaching on a celibate priesthood is ONLY a tradition, which can be changed at ANY time. Remember that most of the Eastern Catholic Churches do currently allow married priests, and that married priests were common even in the Latin church up until the late eleventh century! That said, a priest must be married BEFORE ordination. A priest cannot get married (or remarried if his wife dies) after ordination, nor can he advance to the level of bishop or beyond.
 
Rolltide said:
The teaching forbidding women priests is infallible. HOWEVER… the teaching on a celibate priesthood is ONLY a tradition, which can be changed at ANY time…
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Yes, I already know that. Were you just using my post as an example to assest in making a proper point, or did I post something that made you think I was under a misunderstanding on Church teaching?
 
Dirk_Skene said:
Yes, I already know that. Were you just using my post as an example to assest in making a proper point, or did I post something that made you think I was under a misunderstanding on Church teaching?
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To assist in making a proper point. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
 
Rolltide said:
The teaching forbidding women priests is infallible. HOWEVER… the teaching on a celibate priesthood is ONLY a tradition, which can be changed at ANY time. Remember that most of the Eastern Catholic Churches do currently allow married priests, and that married priests were common even in the Latin church up until the late eleventh century! That said, a priest must be married BEFORE ordination. A priest cannot get married (or remarried if his wife dies) after ordination, nor can he advance to the level of bishop or beyond.
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Theoretically but certainly not probable, a non-ordained married man can become the Pope.

The only requirement is to be a Catholic male from what I know.
 
it is said that a Bishop must be a husband to one wife as 1 Timothy 3:2 says

what does the verse mean? is it to be taken literally that priests/bishops should marry?

1 timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless,** the husband of one wife**, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach
 
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