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augustv12324 karma

What’s your workout routine?

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One of the biggest objections to Catholicism I hear from my Protestant and agnostic family members is regarding priestly celibacy. I often struggle giving them a good defence of the practice. They don't understand why married men can't be ordained in addition to those that choose to remain celibate. I attend an Ordinarite parish and my priest is married with five children. It doesn't detract from how he is able to care for his flock and on the contrary I think the experience of having a wife and kids adds to what he can bring to the table as a priest.

How can I defend the ban on married priests in the Latin Rite when the Eastern Rites allow for them? If it's good for the Eastern churches why can't it be good for the Latin Rite as well? We're all one Church.

Just to be clear none of them object to some men choosing to follow Christ's example and remain celibate, just that married men aren't (usually) allowed to be ordained in the Latin Rite.

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Not the Bishop but I was OP and can answer the question.

The apostle Peter, the first Pope, had a mother in law so it’s safe to assume he was married. We don’t know anything about his wife though so she could have been dead before he became an apostle.

Some of the renaissance popes had children but it was because they were violating their vow of celibacy with a mistress not because they were married.

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Do you think the Church should once again allow certain lay people to become Cardinals? I think having a few good and faithful Catholic lay people in the College of Cardinals could give a voice to issues faced by Catholic lay people in modern society.