Married/Female priests?

[Ghosty]

Careful, Cyberman, “neither” is apparently heretical.

There’s nothing “apparently” about it. If you believe in the Ordinary Magisterium (i.e. you’re Catholic), then you must accept that the ordaination of women is heretical. It’s really not difficult. The Ordinary Magisterium is the same authority that proclaims that Jesus was the Messiah, so to deny its authority in one place is to deny it in the other.

 

[Rm_Catholic]

Ghosty:

There’s nothing “apparently” about it. If you believe in the Ordinary Magisterium (i.e. you’re Catholic), then you must accept that the ordaination of women is heretical. It’s really not difficult. The Ordinary Magisterium is the same authority that proclaims that Jesus was the Messiah, so to deny its authority in one place is to deny it in the other.

Nicely done!!!

God Bless

 

[Ghosty]

Thanks

I think sometimes people write off “Ordinary Magisterium” as if it lies outside of the infallible teaching of the Church, forgetting that the very foundation of our faith, such as Jesus being the Christ, God being the God of Abraham, ect. actually comes from the Ordinary Magisterium. These are things that were not issued from Councils, though they may be affirmed as often as necessary. People need to be reminded that when a Church document cites the Ordinary Magisterium, it is citing the most fundamental teaching authority of the Church, not some extraneous, tacked-on affair.

 

[Kevin_Walker]

justme:

At current count there are 38 people here who do not understand the difference between discipline and dogma.

They also do not understand that the Church already has married priests. Well I guess Angainor falls into that group also as he is not aware of that either.

After reading this website:
davidmacd.com/catholic/why_priests_cant_marry.htm

I find the existance of a married Roman Catholic Priest greatly disturbing.

 

[Seeks_God]

I think that there are some people out there that believe a married priest will somehow alleviate the sexual indescretions of preists out there - i.e. priests will no longer be required to be keep a vow of celibacy or that pedophilia will no longer be an issue…

I think this thinking just further separates a priest’s respomsibilities to the Church

 

[DavidFilmer]

An Eastern Rite priest may not marry after his Ordination (if he is married, he was married at the time of his Ordination). No Eastern Rite priest may marry once he is Ordained (so if the wife dies, he cannot marry again).

 

[Angainor]

Seeks God:

I think that there are some people out there that believe a married priest will somehow alleviate the sexual indescretions of preists out there - i.e. priests will no longer be required to be keep a vow of celibacy or that pedophilia will no longer be an issue…

I think this thinking just further separates a priest’s respomsibilities to the Church

I think that one problem married preists might help alleviate is the priest shortage.

Think of all the sons that might-have-been that could have chosen to follow in their (bioligical) father’s footsteps.

 

[Cubsfan]

In the Navy I have had the chance to speak with married / divorced Protestant chaplains. The concept of the married Priest comes with a whole set of new problems. May I also add that how is a priest going to raise a family on a priests salary?

 

[4_marks]

Married priests are certainly possible and I, for one, would definitely consider pursuing such a vocation, as a married man and active Catholic, were married men to become eligible as priestly candidates in the Roman rite. Even so, there is great wisdom in the discipline of celibacy, and I am not one of those many voices in the American Church who are pushing to have it become a relic of the past.

Women have a great deal of giftedness, and although the thought of women ordained to Holy Orders is intriguing and exciting, I believe that the Church must carefully and seriously sift through its traditional and theological heritage first and foremost. It has never been the consensus of the entire Church to ordain women. Many believe that there are profound theological consequences for the insistence upon a male only hierarchy in 2005 C.E. I do not believe, as some do, that such insistence constitutes mean spirited sexual discrimination, but that the matter must not be decided based upon a post-modern cultural and societal ethos regarding equal opportunity and gender equality, but rather by examining where the Church has been, where she presently finds herself, and where she may be headed.