There are many posts in parishes that in the past were ministered by priests, but with today’s relative shortage of priests, it is more practical to relegate these posts to the laity. (i.e. parish finances)
We still need more priests. You have several CAF discerning it. I’m very pleased that the CC has brought back the deacons too.
Paul never recommends celibacy as a requirement for leadership. Look at I Timothy 3. Its unbibilical because celibacy as a requirement to serve as priest, bishop etc. Are you aware that Peter was married?
You mean several on CAF discerning?What the catholic church is forbidding are married men in the places of “higher authorities” i.e. bishops and priests. It is there that decisions for the entire church are made and married men for the most part do not have any authority there since they have been essentially locked out becasue they are married.
Douay Rheims Bible has a footnote on this:
You have not cited a verse in the Bible that actually had St. Paul condemned celibacy as un-Biblical.
Yes he was. He was also a widower. His wife’s name is rarely mentioned in the Bible. You would have to go outside Scripture to figure that one out.
What kinds of authorities are you referring to? Teaching authority? What is there in the offices of priests and bishops that you think married men ought to be entitled to?
The Catholic Church is not forbidding it. Many of the men in the Latin Rite decided to live a celibate life. They are not force to give up wife if they had one.
yeah
Apparantly the dioscese of Omaha, Nebraska isn’t having much trouble in that area… But I digress.
A good example!
The evidence that Peter had a wife throughout his minstry is quite strong. I Corinthians 9:5 certainly implies he had. I think there is also a strong tradition that he and his wife died at about the same time.
I think we explained this. YES, Peter had a mother-in-law. But it is more likely that his wife had died by the time he was called to follow Jesus, especially considering that Peter’s wife was not mentioned at the same time his mother-in-law was.
In a parish where there is a priest who ultimately has the final say?
I think what you mentioning here are the exceptions rather than the rule. If a married man wanted to become a Jeuit priest, could he?
The Society of Jesus (The Jesuits) requires celibacy for its priests regardless. The Jesuits would not accept a married man, period. Try another example, maybe?
At this point i’m not saying its a requirement but that married men with a family are excellent candidates for being a bishop. Rome has essentially nullified this.
Your right. However, its up to you to support the claim that celibacy is a requirement in scripture for leadership.
I respond to this elsewhere.
That phrase is probably better translated as “sister-wife”. It means, more or less, that on missionary journeys, the Apostles would travel with a woman who would sometimes minister to women in ways it may not have been “kosher” for the apostle to do so. (generally)
Would you agree that this goes against the scripture?