Married Priests: From West to East

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catholicstraightanswers.com/was-saint-peter-married/

*'Was Saint Peter Married? - Catholic Straight Answers

St. Matthew recorded in the Gospel, “Jesus entered Peter’s house and found Peter’s mother-in-law in bed with a fever. He took her by the hand and the fever left her” (Mt 8:14-15). Note that the passage does not mention St. Peter’s wife, but only his mother-in-law. The Gospels, however, make no mention of St. Peter’s wife, living or nonliving. Therefore, St. Peter’s wife must have died before Jesus called him to be an apostle*.

For full disclosure, Clement of Alexandria (Stromata, III) (c. 202), said St. Peter was married, had children and witnessed his wife’s martyrdom in Rome. These terse points were recorded, citing Clement, in St. Eusebuis’ The History of the Church. Given the silence of other church fathers about St. Peter’s wife and children (who would have had some prominence in the history of the early church), and the lack of any archaeological evidence of ancient Rome, which holds the burial sites of St. Peter and so many other early martyrs, one would conclude St. Peter’s wife died before he had been called as an apostle.'

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Maybe it is that St. Peter’s mother in law was feverish because his wife had died and she was suffering due to the loss of her daughter?! Seems reasonable.

In addition: catholic.com/magazine/articles/did-peter-have-a-wife

• by an apologist from CA.

That St Peter was a widower is what I had always heard and believed. I was merely sharing what I had found while [briefly] looking into what Don Ruggero had shared, which I found interesting. “Given the silence of other church fathers about St. Peter’s wife and children”, I suppose a Catholic is not really bound to either school of thought since it appears that there is not an official Church stance.

 

[Ubenedictus]

No the following exchange is what I was responding to:

• Originally Posted by JimmyG88 View Post

A married Roman Catholic priest recently buried my mother and I have rarely met a more holy man wo conducted the mass and services with exceptional piety. His married status was irrelevant (or possibly that is what helps him to be such an exceptionally holy man)
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*To which there was the response:
Friardchips:
There are many saints who we revere and none of them were married priests, so…again, please read the document above. *

It is this last conclusion that is offensive because the saints common to East and West of the Apostolic and Sub-apostolic Church, in fact, of course include married priests…including the protomartyrs of the Church of Rome, whose feast is celebrated the day after Saints Peter and Paul. There will no doubt be many more married priests beatified in the decades ahead. They are as eminently canonisable as any celibate priest.

i think u guys are reading past each other, i dont think frairdchips post above is in any way implying that married priest cant be saints.