2006-09-02 20:48:54 · 26 answers · asked by regina g 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. This will help in reducing sexual abuse cases in the Church.
2006-09-02 21:06:38 · answer #1 · answered by Utkarsh 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a riot - all these people who think the preisthood will be flooded with candidates if clergymen were allowed to marry. Men know, before going into a seminary, that they will be required to live a life of celibacy. They volunteer to be celibate.
What's more, being a clergyman is not a 9-5 job. It is 24/7. How could one raise a family and - at the same time - devote the amount of attention towards the parish necessary to be effective in one's parishioners' Spiritual development? It can't be done.
When a man becomes a priest, he, in essence, marries the Church. The Church is the priest's spouse, the parishioners are his family.
2006-09-04 10:36:47 · answer #2 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as Church canon goes there is no reason why priests can't marry. They were allowed to marry up to about the Middle Ages (I believe). Up to that time all the property the priest owned was, of course, inherited by his wife and children when he died. One of the Popes realized that if the priests were forced to be celibate all the property they owned would have to be left to the Church.
There would be no real reason why the Church couldn't go back to a married priesthood except, maybe, financial and logistical ones. It would be more expensive to pay a married priest and it would be more difficult to move them around to where they were needed. Very important reasons why it's not going to happen very soon.
2006-09-03 06:16:37 · answer #3 · answered by Ellen J 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES Catholic Priests SHOULD be allowed to marry!
That way there would be LESS PEDOPHILES in the Catholic Church AND the Church would have enough Priests to cover Mass at all the Churches!
2006-09-03 03:55:20 · answer #4 · answered by jennifersuem 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
In the Bible it says that either Peter or Paul (one of the Ps) had a mother-in-law whom Jesus cured. Isn't the Catholic church based on one of these guys?
2006-09-03 04:01:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont beleive so. who makes these rules for these religions anyway and who has the athority to change them or branch off into a new religion on a whims notice because it suits someone else. if a preist cant stay sulubut ....for god. then he should leave the preisthood,
2006-09-03 04:03:38 · answer #6 · answered by eightieschick70 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes!!! It's only natural. You'd have more men entering the priesthood and maybe they'd leave the little boys alone.
2006-09-03 03:54:57 · answer #7 · answered by myrmidon 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They were born a man and became a priest. They are men first and God said be fruitful and mutiple. Yes, of course.
2006-09-03 03:53:51 · answer #8 · answered by Ms. Unique 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they should or all Nuns and Church going virgins would be raped over and over like it has always been. May be it is time they get to do it in an acceptable way !
2006-09-03 03:57:34 · answer #9 · answered by R G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there might be more men willing to join the priesthood if they could marry.
2006-09-03 03:51:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋