2006-07-28 01:41:15 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Priests can marry. A priest married me and my wife.
2006-07-28 01:45:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, you want the real answer?
Catholic priests can't marry so that the pope's son cannot become the pope. This ensures elections in the church. No other democratic system has lasted as long as the catholic church. Eventually some powerful person will claim a thrown--it happened in the very city that the church got it's name from. Once someone claims the thrown that rule can last for centuries as sons continue to claim their fathers thrones. Remember the church used to a form of government too.
One reason this tends to happen is there are many advantages to having a dictatorship over a democracy. In certain times people will accept one, usually a good one, but then the whole secession thing happens and you get not so good ones.
2006-07-28 09:00:47 · answer #2 · answered by goose1077 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 7 sacraments in RC. Actually 6, Of the two: (1) holy matrimony and (2) holy orders , you may choose only one, but not both. Its a Catholic thing. For a Catholic Priest to marry-he must renounce his 'holy orders'. That would be a big deal. But then-marriage is a big deal too.
2006-07-28 08:51:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple they do not have the time and their lives are not their own. Priests work 7 days a week. They do not have free time. They must be available 24/7, 52 weeks out of the year.The Church is their life. It is a Vocations not a job.Wives and families require free time, more money, and the larger portion of ones time and love.
Peace Be With You,
Debra
2006-07-28 08:47:33 · answer #4 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the early Catholic Church, priests could marry. In Christian Churches established before the Catholic Church, such as some Eastern churches priests still can marry. It was established so that priests would seem purer and have their greatest loyalty be to the Church, not to their families.
2006-07-28 08:46:49 · answer #5 · answered by millancad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they've taken a vow of celebacy. Not to say married men can't be priests...there are over 140 married men that have been ordained within the last decade.
2006-07-28 08:44:02 · answer #6 · answered by gg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholic priests marry God. Next time you see one, look at their ring finger and you will see a wedding band. I think that a lot of the other religions allow marriage though. I'm Baptist and my minister is married.
2006-07-28 08:51:03 · answer #7 · answered by brittme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was an economic decision made some centuries in the past. Because of tithing, if the priesthood could create decendants, pretty soon they would own the world. That was when the "Church" imagined that they were going to take over all of the world. Then, it became a habit, so to speak...
2006-07-28 08:49:03 · answer #8 · answered by Opalita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that's some crazy rule taken and made up by the Catholic church. There is nothing in the Bible that says and elder or deacon or preacher cannot wed or have sex. It's absurd. If it's not in the Bible, or if you've added to the Bible, or if you've taken away from the Bible you are in the wrong. And because of that, your name will be taken out of the Lamb's Book of Life (Rev. 22). Those who follow the traditions and doctrines of men are walking down the wrong path.. The Bible is the Word of God. Nothing else can get you to Heaven.
2006-07-28 08:47:31 · answer #9 · answered by ridersinthesky11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pope took away their "household tax" in 1343. Before then, they could pay the Vatican a monetary penalty for having a full-time woman. Today, they let the Sisters do the housecleaning and they always wait until the man has left the premises.
2006-07-28 08:45:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋