Married Baptist Minister becomes a Catholic Priest

[Claire_from_DE]

So because your wife at the time was anti-Catholic you were prevented from becoming a Deacon?

Awesome and yeah, time will tell indeed.

In my diocese the bishop will not ordain a deacon unless his wife is totally in favor and supportive of him being a deacon. I don’t think he will even be accepted into the formation program. Being a deacon cuts into your family time, a lot. Being a priest is a full time vocation. Most married priests aren’t in full time parish ministry.

 

[vocatio]

In my diocese the bishop will not ordain a deacon unless his wife is totally in favor and supportive of him being a deacon. I don’t think he will even be accepted into the formation program. Being a deacon cuts into your family time, a lot. Being a priest is a full time vocation. Most married priests aren’t in full time parish ministry.

I never addressed that question, thinking that is was merely a clarification. No a bishop will NOT accept a candidate for the diaconate unless his wife is supports his secondary vocatoin as a deacon. Our primary vocation is to our wife. And if the wife is jealous or in need of more attention [whether selfish or justified for need of help] then he must submit to his wife’s needs. Ministry is taxing and needs lots of attention.

 

[emeraldcoast]

Vocatio,

Your history with your wife being an anti-Catholic and your faith would of been very helpful last night on a post that has been moved to the Family Life Forum.

God Bless!

 

[jmcrae]

Who is Kevin?

He is one of the men in Bruce Sullivan’s original study group - if you were in that group (and it seems as though you must have been), then you most likely know him. He was also on a path to conversion, but had one or two set-backs - I never heard the final result.

 

[vocatio]

He is one of the men in Bruce Sullivan’s original study group - if you were in that group (and it seems as though you must have been), then you most likely know him. He was also on a path to conversion, but had one or two set-backs - I never heard the final result.

I wouldn’t know that… my affiliate with Bruce is coming from the same faith at different times. He converted before I came back many years ago. I’ve only chatted with him and spoke to him within the last 2 years. It’s not like we hang out. We’re in separate states. But he’s always welcome to my home…if he’s in the area. He’s a good man from what I know about him. He’s very good with people. But now I see where you’re coming from.

 

[valiermn]

Yea, but a Catholic Priest becoming an Episcopal priest is not the same, it only shows that he is in dissent and probably seriously in trouble with God. If he says a mass, then the Eucharist in his church would be valid, but illicit. I’m talking Chruch teaching here, not trying to offend…It is a Catholic website. But Baptists are typically fundamentalist/evangelists. That’s what’s so unusual about it. This is a very big step or sidestep depending on how you look at it I guess. If a Catholic priest became a Baptist their would be no opportunity to perform the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Episcopals have liturgical worship resembling a Catholic mass.

He is in trouble provided that God is Catholic. I think God loves all his clergy Catholic methodist Lutheran or Episcopalian. If Jesus comes back at 8 am on a Sunday Morning. He is going to vist us Lutherans across the street as well. Some of the pasengers in the Cars parked in the Catholic parking lot are across the street in the Lutheran and Presbyterian Church. I know some of them. We all meet at Oleary’s Pancake house at 9:15 Mr Olary is an Usher at the Lutheran Church. You see we are all Christians no matter what the Catholic apologist says he is just trying to sell books and DVDs