10/22/09 at 12:48 PM
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08/03/09 at 07:24 PM
Where are you from? Arizona
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Andrew,
The difference between a lay person and priest is very clear. A priest is called sacramental ministry and a lay person is called to the priesthood of all people. Check out the documents of Vatican II with regard to this. Married priests function sacramentally and lead the liturgy. That is the primary difference. And the best priests come from those who exercise their fundamental priesthood as lay people in the best possible way. Those clergy who think of themselves as fundamentally different from lay people or better than lay people make the worst priests.
08/03/09 at 06:41 PM
Where are you from? Arizona
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To the young woman who is dating a man contemplating priesthood. It is good that your boyfriend is thinking of his vocation to priesthood with regard to celibacy. You have more options than you think you have and considering all of them is part of a valid discernment. If your boyfriend is not called to celibacy but feels called to both marriage and priesthood, then maybe looking at another denomination would be part of your discernment. I know of one Catholic Seminarian who did this a year before ordination, realized he was not called to celibacy and became an Episcopal priest in our diocese. I married an ordained Roman Catholic priest of ten years, and he transfered his orders to the Episcopal Church four years ago. We couldn't be happier. Also a call to the diaconate is very different than a call to the priesthood. A priest who is truly called to sacramental ministry is not going to be happy functioning as deacon or a a lay person doing ministry. It sounds like he needs time to figure out exactly what he is called to. You are in a difficult place and I will pray for you.
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07/07/09 at 10:09 AM
Where are you from? Lima, Peru
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I would like to inform your readers that our Catholic Church of the East, which is of the tradition of the Saint Thomas Christians of India and Assyrian Church of the East, allows for married bishops, priests and deacons and deaconesses. This Church came to the West in 1902, when Bar Basilios, Metropolitan of India, consecrated Mar Jacobus (Ulric Hereford of Great Britain) in the Church of the Epiphany, Pallithanam, Madura, South India. In this succession, Mar Georgius consecrated Mar John Stanley as Autocephalous Metropolitan Archbishop of North America in 1965. Mar Stanley recently retired from this position in June 2009 for reasons of health. He is succeeded by Mar ColumCille Wilson of the UK. I was consecrated Bishop of the Missionary Diocese of Peru in 2005 and in June 2009 was named Archbishop of the Province of South America. Our Church that considers its highest authority to be the Holy Bible, interpreted in the light of the entire Bible. Since its beginning, our Church has been evangelical, liturgical and pentecostal. Former Roman Catholic priests who adhere to orthodox Scriptural theology and practice are welcome to apply. After a one-year formation program, approved candidates are ordained sub conditione according to the apostolic lines of succession of the apostles St. Thomas and St. Jude Thaddeus. Interested readers in English may contact Mar ColumCille Wilson at marvlight@googlemail.com, and those more comfortable in Spanish, French and/or Portuguese may contact me at mar.sean@iglesiacatolicaoriental.org.
07/02/09 at 01:27 PM
Where are you from? mexico
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i am priests and i agree with you and movement
i always pray for new things for my church
i want one day see the norm of celibacy dawn this is freedom for share time with my girlfriend
06/11/09 at 03:22 AM
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05/13/09 at 09:12 AM
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Malika, help your man to analyze very carefully what he is getting into. Just about every aspect of ministry he can do as a married permanent deacon -- AFTER he gets married to you, if that is where you are heading. In fact he can serve the Church in a lot of ways as a married layman. Only three tasks require making that celibacy vow: 1) Celebrating the Eucharist; 2) Hearing confessions and absolving sins; 3) Extreme unction of the sick and dying (in non-emergency circumstances). A married deacon can perform weddings and baptisms. He can preach and read the Gospel during Mass.
Or encourage him to try out seminary. When I was in graduate school, my then boyfriend abruptly informed me that he had a vocation. Well, I thought, who am I to oppose the will of God? So off he went to seminary. After two years, he decided it wasn't his thing and wanted to come back but by then I was no longer interested and told him to get lost. He's happily married to someone else, thank God.
Bottom line: A lot of guys find out that the priestly life is not for them, especially when they realize that the Church is not a democracy and they can't dictate HOW they are going to serve God once they take that vow of obedience and put on that collar.
05/11/09 at 07:38 AM
Where are you from? Washington, DC
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Yes, there should be a Marriage OPTION in the priesthood. I support it- see my blog, http://www.democracytruth.blogspot.com
I think that the women who get caught in the middle are the worst served ----they just get totally abused.
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