You make a fool out of yourself with a straw man
about married priests though its funny you didn't talk to Peter's wife.
Not exact matches
The result is this 270 - page formal letter, called an apostolic exhortation, addressed to bishops,
priests,
married couples, and lay people
about «love in the family.»
If anyone had asked me what I thought
about Eastern Orthodoxy before I converted, I would have said it was basically a popeless Catholic Church, except that its
priests can
marry.
Thus many Catholics complain
about the dearth of
priests, all the while ignoring their own responsibility for that outcome — the fact that few have children in numbers large enough to send one son to the priesthood while the others
marry and carry on the family name.
If they would allow
priests to
marry ths might not happen but I don't know where they get the idea they can't
marry, my Bible doesn't say anything
about a man of God not being able to
marry.
The question is not really
about a celibate
priest loving God more than a
married one; that is disingenuous and rather unhelpful.
It was the Catholic Church that decided he shouldn't have been
married, so they could say that
priests shouldn't be
married — so they could claim all their assets and not worry
about any
priests» heirs popping up and claiming their worldly goods.
It seems that the one thing everyone knows
about the Eastern Churches is that «they have
married priests.»
The church needs to get its act together, let
priest marry and starting practicing the word of God instead of just taking
about it Sunday mornings to an ever declining group of church goers.
He was a
priest for
about 25 years, fell in love with a nun and they got secretly
married.
Not one word
about abortion, contraception,
married priest or women
priests in Christs words.
The Garden Of Allah — The beautiful gold tones of two - strip Technicolor are
about the only highlight of this Marlene Dietrich melodrama
about a
priest on the run who
marries a saintly woman (Dietrich, if you can buy that).