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Zekariya said:
There is no source. We know that Christ healed St Peter’s mother-in-law. We never hear anything about St Peter’s wife. I presume she passed away before Christ called the Apostles.
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The argument from silence is no argument at all, unfortunately.
 
DaddyGirl said:
Wait…dude. Are you saying that after the men become priests, they can no longer have sex with their wives?
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They can have sex with their wives. They, however, are required to abstain from sex the day before they celebrate the Mass. This is why married Eastern priests do not celebrate daily Mass.
porthos11 said:
The argument from silence is no argument at all, unfortunately.
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I am not arguing either way. Just my thoughts. 🙂
 
tafan said:
It is only in modern times, by those who favor a married priesthood, that people have put forth the hypothesis that Peter was married, which is my mind borders on the absurd.
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Yeah. And these are some of the same moderns that say that Jesus was probably married, too! Absurd, indeed! :bigyikes:
 
Zekariya said:
They can have sex with their wives. They, however, are required to abstain from sex the day before they celebrate the Mass. This is why married Eastern priests do not celebrate daily Mass.

I am not arguing either way. Just my thoughts. 🙂
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Oh…yah…I was speaking in terms of the Roman Rite. Mea Culpa.
 
No problem!

I love your avatar photo…

I should also add that the 1983 Code of Canon Law requires “perfect and perpetual continence” for Clerics. This means:

-Deacons, Priests, and Bishops in the '83 Code
-This is not the same as celibacy: this means no relations with his wife, ever, period, following the reception of Holy Orders
-This also applies to married Protestant converts who are ordained to the Priesthood
 
A recent survey by the USCCB found that over 91% of US clergy are opposed to allowing marriage
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I’m sorry, but this is the most absurd argument against married Priests. Its like asking Roman Catholics as a whole whether they are happy being Roman Catholics, or Republicans whether they are happy being Republicans, or Democrats…, or Jews…, etc.

Of course the current preistly crop does not consider it important that we should permit a married priesthood…if they did, they wouldn’t be there.

Instead, why don’t you take a survey of Catholic laymen and find out how many would consider joining the Priesthood (and, accordingly, how much it would help to reduce the vocational crisis) if becoming ordained as a Priest didn’t mean giving up any hope of having a family of your own?
 
Armor_of_Light said:
Yeeeaaaahhhh…

Kind of makes me think I was NOT actually getting a call to the diaconate after all!
I sure wish we had more Eastern rite churches around here…beautiful. Probably not a lot of hand holding there, eh?
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No hand holding here (at least according to the rubrics). 🙂
 
If they allow married priests the best way to do it IMO is to only allow men who have been married for at least 10 or 15 years to do so. I believe it’s what they do with deacons these days. The reason why I say this is because it would still leave the door open for men who want to be celibate priests who can go to the seminary in their 20s and have a full career of being a priest whereas the option for a man to get married and then become a priest while at the same age wouldn’t be there.

Also a man who has been married for a longer period of time would hopefully have older children which would require a little less attention compared to a toddler.
 
GangGreen said:
If they allow married priests the best way to do it IMO is to only allow men who have been married for 10 or 15 years to do so. I believe it’s what they do with deacons these days. The reason why I say this is because it would still leave the door open for men who want to be celibate priests who can go to the seminary in their 20s and have a full career of being a priest whereas the option for a man to get married and then become a priest while at the same age wouldn’t be there.
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Certainly one should be married for a time in order to see if the candidate fulfills his first vocation (marriage) well before adding the vocation of Holy Orders.

Titus 1:5-6 For this cause I left thee in Crete: that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee: If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly.
 
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