Do Catholics who are not monks, nuns, or clergymen usually get married?

[zhoudu]

Do Catholics who are not monks, nuns, or clergymen usually get married? Is it okay for a Catholic neither to become a monk, a nun or a clergymen, nor to get married?

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Do Catholics who are not monks, nuns, or clergymen usually get married? Is it okay for a Catholic neither to become a monk, a nun or a clergymen, nor to get married?

Yes, they usually get married.
Yes it’s ok if they don’t.

 

[Allegra]

Yes to both.

 

[GEddie]

Most human beings do get married, but it is a misconception that **everybody **does, apart from those in religious service.

Our LORD never married, and Scripture’s witness in Proverbs on the difficulty of finding a good wife, would suggest that this is not automatic or something all can expect.

ICXC NIKA

 

[ILoveYeshua]

Singleness in ones life can be a blessing, for it gives one the time to devote themselves to prayer and service

 

[DarkLight]

Yes, they usually get married.
Yes it’s ok if they don’t.

Pretty much this. Most do in fact get married, but there is no particular immorality in not getting married. On can, of course, marry or not marry from bad reasons.

 

[twf]

Catholics who aren’t called to holy orders or consecrated life do typically get married, just as people in general typically get married. Yet some don’t… and that is certainly not a sin.

 

[SyroMalankara]

Do Catholics who are not monks, nuns, or clergymen usually get married? Is it okay for a Catholic neither to become a monk, a nun or a clergymen, nor to get married?

Hey, there’s a place for everyone. I know Catholics who were called to marriage and became clergy; married Catholics who were called to monastic life; and Catholic singles called to both and neither.

 

[GEddie]

Hey, there’s a place for everyone. I know Catholics who were called to marriage and became clergy; married Catholics who were called to monastic life; and Catholic singles called to both and neither.

Remember that in the Roman Church, normatively one cannot do both; and many within it are unaware that there are branches of Catholicism wherein one can.

ICXC NIKA

 

[twf]

Remember that in the Roman Church, normatively one cannot do both; and many within it are unaware that there are branches of Catholicism wherein one can.

ICXC NIKA

Most US dioceses and many other dioceses around the world (though not all) regularly ordain married men to the diaconate - deacons are definitely clergy.

 

[ConfusedLucy]

There are more one person households these days so you would expect to see more single people in the pews.

 

[Monica4316]

Regarding vocations, as I understand these are the different vocations…

Clergy (only for men of course)

Religious life

Marriage

And many people would stop there but the Church does give another one: it’s consecrated life in the world, which is like single life in the world but it’s committed and dedicated to God. Either through a secular institute, a private vow, etc. Third Order Saints who weren’t religious or married belong to this category as well (St Catherine of Siena, St Rose of Lima, St Margaret of Cortona, St Benedict Joseph Labre, etc). So it’s not marrying but in order to love God alone, just not in a monastery.

There are also vocations like Consecrated Virgins, hermits, - which are all consecrated vocations and like religious life but different in ways (CVs typically live in the world today, and hermits are solitary)