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Where are you from? Salt Lake City ,UT USA Comments: I am a new Catholic(was baptised a year ago).During my trek through RCIA and being baptised,the newly ordained vicar and I fell in love,he showed his interest/emotion before I did,it has been quite a spiritual and emotional struggle for us both.Before I decided to become Catholic I didn't really feel that strongly about celibacy in Catholic priests either way.I have come to change my mind.I feel that it is wrong to force a way of life that was only given to a small few not required of all shepherds of God's sheep.Love is not a sin,Jesus is filled with love,we should allow priests to embrace the good and natural love that God gives them and gave to most of us beginning with Adam and Eve. I know that love as deep as I now feel for my dear priest is a gift from God.And the love that most married couples feel toward one another is a gift from God.Not only would openly allowing married priests provide more shepherds for God's sheep but likely a greater quantity of better quality Priests.Being that pedofelia is a sickness not even remotely limited to single people(male and female) it would not eliminate those who are infected with such a horrendous illness,but it would allow for those in the screening proccess prior to ordination a chance to see and access them around children.And thus more easily,detect(by power of the Holy Spirit as well as through knowledge of the warning signs)those who are ill in that way. And as for the wives of married priests ,they would be almost like an "assistant priest"able to aid in parenting God's flock.Like unto modren-day earthly Blessed Mother's if you will.Priests bear the title of "Father" as they are fathers over God's children,and all children also need a good Mother as well as a good Father.
Where are you from? London UK Comments: We must never forget that if the bible is the literal word of God, according to Christians then the acid test for the ministry and more so for Bishops must come from 1Tim 3 and Titus. Not even God would allow Adam to be alone, so gave him Eve. It is one of the seven sacraments, to keep six and not the seven is a sin, you might as well not keep them at all.
Where are you from? USA Comments: Graham, thank you for the great updates to this website and the challenge for the Church to adopt a model of clergy as seen in the Orthodox Church. The Spirit has been very active, all but shouting out a message of clergy reform in answer to some very obvious "signs of the times": an aging diminishing priesthood, an increase in Catholic population, the rapidly growing number of lay ministers, and most significantly the boom in the number of married deacons many of whom, by the way, would become priests but for the restriction of celibacy. The success of the permanent diaconate could easily translate to a success in a married priesthood. Celibacy is a highly valued and powerfully positive witness when the call to it is genuine, not just mandated! A committed, sacramental married priesthood is also a powerfully positive witness to a "gratification" oriented society, where Catholic marriages and families need the spiritual leadership it too can offer!
Comments: Hello im Found this Page very nice. Im for married priests too and hope that is the future of the catholic church!! Best wishes! I always searching for contacts to priest were have a girlfriend or married or women were love a priest Best wishes and good luck from Austria yours Anita
Comments: Glad to have the website up and running!
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