I am an Anglican, but I love the Catholic church

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po18guy said:
Not so fast!
  1. Ask any celibate priest. Celibacy is a gift. Should we take that away?
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I think you could and should also asked a married Catholic priest. In regards to that, I thought this article/blog about this very subject was very good. Father Longenecker is a married Catholic priest.

https://dwightlongenecker.com/married-priests-now/

Some quotes…
One of the most remarkable things about the married priests debate is that we already have married priests. I am one of them. However, in the thirteen years of my being a married Catholic priest no one–no bishop, archbishop, theologian, journalist, campaigner, married priests advocate….no one in any official or semi official capacity has sat down and asked me how it works.
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Where do I personally stand on the issue? I think the church should be open to the ordination of more older, tested married men. On a case by case basis according to local needs, I wish individual bishops had more possibilities to put forward men they know are tried, tested servants of the church who are already married.
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An older married man knows how to support himself and earn a living. He may have independent means and therefore not need the diocesan system so much. Might this be one of the reasons the hierarchy is not too quick to have married priests? Just askin’
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I agree very much with Father Longenecker on this issue. His views are really worth thinking about and considering.
 
I love being a Catholic.
I just see no reason why priest should not be able to marry or why women should not be able to be priests.
Remember when Jesus was crucified, the only people who remained in his presence were women. The men denied him and/or fled.
 
JoeShlabotnik said:
I just see no reason why priest should not be able to marry or why women should not be able to be priests.
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No reason at all? Perhaps you should look into Chesterton’s Fence. If you can see no merits whatsoever to the status quo, your opinions cannot be trusted.
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Remember when Jesus was crucified, the only people who remained in his presence were women. The men denied him and/or fled.
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The argument about priestesses has nothing to do with the relative virtue of men and women. This point is an utter irrelevance.
 
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I’m an Ordinariate member. There’s no parish within hundreds of miles so I go to Mass wherever I want, TLM when I can. Not a priest, obviously, though I’ve worked in youth ministry and Catholic education and may do so again. My religious education comes from both Catholic and Protestant colleges, currently Liberty U.
 
Why remain in a schismatic church started by a monarch who dissented from the Catholic teaching about the sacrament of marriage?
 
JoeShlabotnik said:
I love being a Catholic.
I just see no reason why priest should not be able to marry or why women should not be able to be priests.
Remember when Jesus was crucified, the only people who remained in his presence were women. The men denied him and/or fled.
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My recommendation is to study these issues and do your own research. Read some of the documents others have suggested about female priests. For a start, perhaps try to understand the research and discussion about female Deacons too. Personally, I’m not comfortable even with the concept of female Deacons.

I’d strongly recommend not conflating the idea of married priests and female priests. There are married priests. The number of married priests in the Latin rite is an issue of the discipline of celibacy vs. the potential need for more priests taking finances into account. Female priests are an issue of theology that cuts to the very heart of Catholic beliefs.
 
I am a Catholic, will always be Catholic. but love the Anglican Liturgy, it is so ancient and beautiful. ( speaking from personal view, the Anglican Church in our small town. ) <3
 
Margaret_Ann said:
Priests cannot marry.
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It’s actually “may not”, rather than “cannot”.

There are a couple of cases each for EC and EO in which priests with small children were permitted to marry again when widowed, for the sake of the children. Also, modernly the ROC has been allowing RC priests who transition to marry on the grounds that they were “wrongfully denied” the opportunity to do so.

And then there’s the EPs recent decision to sometimes allow priests, too, to be able to remarry by ekonomea after being widowed or abandoned by their wives . . .
 
Jack, you sound like you have a problem with women, in general.
I will pray for you, especially to Our Blessed Mother.
 
Our Lord is more important than any creature, my friend. In your case, I strongly suggest Doing a work of convertion by showing your family how much you love the one and true Church.

I will pray for you.
 
Fauken said:
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JoeShlabotnik:
Jack, you sound like you have a problem with women, in general.
I will pray for you, especially to Our Blessed Mother.
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Believing women can’t be priests is not having a problem with women.
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It is when someone needs a cudgel to attack someone’s character instead of having to make an actual argument.
 
You don’t know me, but thanks for the prayers. I can certainly use them…

My discomfort with women ordained as Deacons has mostly to do with what our Jesuit Pope recently said. He put it a lot better than I ever could. He wants slow thoughtful research and discussion as well as understanding what the original revelation was. I’m very good with this approach. If you call that having a problem with women in general, 🤷‍♂️ “what can you do?”.

www.americamagazine.org

Pope Francis tells women religious church cannot alter revelation on women’s diaconate

“In regard to the diaconate we must see what was there at the beginning of revelation, if there was something, let it grow and it arrives, but if there was not, if the Lord didn’t want a sacramental ministry for women, it can’t go forward.”
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In regard to the diaconate we must see what was there at the beginning of revelation, if there was something, let it grow and it arrives, but if there was not, if the Lord didn’t want a sacramental ministry for women, it can’t go forward. For this reason we go to history and to dogma.” “We are Catholics,” he said, adding with a touch of humor, "but if anyone wants to found another church they are free [to do so].
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JoeShlabotnik said:
How can priests share with the people, when they do not faced the same problems that their married brothers and sisters face?
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Well, they have been sharing with the people for 2,000 years now. and quite a few have been declared saints. It seems pretty doable.
 
But if priests were married, it would be easier to hear them speak of marital problems, etc.
 
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