Marriage is not only a blessing, but it is a sacrament and a gift from God.been blessed from all who contributed to the above subject. God instituted marriage in Eden with Adam and Eve. All should 100% agreed marriage is a blessing, otherwise we don’t exist.
Prists are not marrying because of the religious obligation. I want to know the % of married catholic priests
God bless
Secular priest take no vows, only religious take vows. Secular priests make a promise of obedience to the Church and their bishop and a promise of celibacy.Marriage is not only a blessing, but it is a sacrament and a gift from God.
Jesus encouraged celibacy “for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.” Even St. Paul the Apostle encouraged celibacy. Even Christ himself was celibate, correct?
Priests do not marry because they have taken a vow of chastity and obedience. It is a way of life, a disclipline. Eastern Rite Catholic priests in communion with the pope are allowed to marry, but I don’t know what the % is.
Can you repeat that? I did not get what you said.Secular priest take no vows, only religious take vows. Secular priests make a promise of obedience to the Church and their bishop and a promise of celibacy.
No priest is allowed to marry. The Eastern Catholic Churches ordain married men to the priesthood.
WRONG. They may be ordained while already married, but once ordained, it’s a patriarchal privilege to permit, as an economia, a priest permission to remarry for the sake of his small children. No other reason is historically permitted for clerics to contract a new marriage. The Roman Patriarchate, aka the Papcy has permitted priests to be relieved of their vows and promises in order to be married, but at the cost of being reduced to the function of laymen; that’s beyond the scope of the Eastern historical uses.Marriage is not only a blessing, but it is a sacrament and a gift from God.
Jesus encouraged celibacy “for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.” Even St. Paul the Apostle encouraged celibacy. Even Christ himself was celibate, correct?
Priests do not marry because they have taken a vow of chastity and obedience. It is a way of life, a disclipline. Eastern Rite Catholic priests in communion with the pope are allowed to marry, but I don’t know what the % is.
Sure.Can you repeat that? I did not get what you said.
Yea, I know Eastern priests must be married before being ordained. LOLWRONG. They may be ordained while already married, but once married, it’s a patriarchal privilege to permit, as an economia, a priest permission to remarry for the sake of his small children. No other reason is historically permitted for clerics to contract a new marriage. The Roman Patriarchate, aka the Papcy has permitted priests to be relieved of their vows and promises in order to be married, but at the cost of being reduced to the function of laymen; that’s beyond the scope of the Eastern historical uses.
I’m not being particular out of orneriness; it’s a very important distinction.
Priests were never able to marry in the west and maybe very rarely in the east.This is what I was told. Priests could marry until about the year 1000. First, it was the church’s hierarchy that could not marry (cardinals, bishops, etc.) and over time, local parish priests were included in the single life. By about 1000, all priests, from the upper hierarchy to local priests, were single. This tradition started, as suggested in another posting, over land rights (property). In the day and age of arranged marriages between royalty, wealthy persons, or those of rank, if a priest married a woman of wealth, or the priest somehow became wealthy, and the priest died, the inheritance would go to the priest’s widow or children, and, hence, not to the church. The church was losing potential income. Therefore, if a priest were to remain unmarried, any wealth or inheritance the priest might gain would more likely go to the church and not to his wife, children, etc. The church later created a theological rationale about priests marrying the church as a justification for their financial motivation. It follows the old political adage: If you want to know what’s really going on, follow the money. I was told this by a retired Jesuit priest.
It is not a dogma, it is a discipline. As a matter of fact, in the Eastern rites, a man who is married, ordained, and has children who are young when their mother dies may be allowed to remarry.No cleric (Bishop, Priest, Deacon) has a right to marry.
It was declared dogmatically by one of the early councils that Bishops, Priests, and Deacons can not contract new marriage. Marriage after ordination is heresy.
Married men being ordained bishops is possible; widowers are common enough in the Byantine Rite History, and a few men placed their wives into nunneries to be elligible.
A man to be ordained a deacon must be an upright member of the community, have had no more than one wife (in his lifetime).
A man to be ordained a priest must be a deacon, tho’ that wasn’t always the case. The conciliar era (300-1000 AD) changed that.
A man to be ordained a bishop must be a priest, tho a deacon may be elected, then doubly ordained, in some of the Apostolic Churches.
St Paul, tho, was celibate. Thecla was deaconess and secretary, not wife.
ding, ding, ding…In the 11 century Pope Benadict required all priests to be celibate so that on the death of the Priest no church property could be past on to thei Heirs.
Where did Jesus encourage celibacy explicitly?Secular priest take no vows, only religious take vows. Secular priests make a promise of obedience to the Church and their bishop and a promise of celibacy.
No priest is allowed to marry. The Eastern Catholic Churches ordain married men to the priesthood.
Do you have a source for this? I don’t think that this is true. i read about a case where a Catholic priest, already ordained in the RCC converted to the Orthodox Church. He then got married, even though he was already ordained a priest in the RCC, and after that was vested as a priest in the Orthodox Church. And i believe that there are cases when the wife of the priest dies, that the priest may be allowed to remarry.Priests cannot be married EVER, there has never been a time when priests could get married, but there are times when married men may be priests and some married men are priests today.