I have been told that any baptized Catholic man can be elected Pope, but what if he is a married man?

Answer 1

Contrary to what many people think, there are surprisingly few qualifications for someone to become pope: The cardinals can elect any baptized male to the papacy. Actually, even the requirement of baptism is negotiable -- although once a man accepts election to the papacy, he must be willing to be baptized, ordained a priest and consecrated bishop of Rome (and meet the qualifications of those positions). In recent centuries, however, church practice has been to elect someone from among the College of Cardinals.

Answer 2

1. It is true that any baptized Catholic man can be elected Pope, but as a matter of practice, it's extremely rare for someone who is not a cardinal to even be considered.

2. A married Catholic man can be ordained, but once again, as a matter of practice it is extremely rare in the Latin rite. It is normally only done when a married pastor from another denomination converts to Catholicism and wants to stay in the ministry. Obviously, a married man being elected Pope would be another case where a married man would be ordained.


Actually, if I'm not mistaken, theoretically *any* baptized man could be elected Pope, but the chances of a non-Catholic being considered, much less elected, are about the same as of two random atoms somewhere in the universe colliding to form a small avocado.

Answer 3

Yes.

Any baptized male Catholic can be elected Pope. Although the chances of a non-cardinal being elected is very small.

If the person elected is not yet a bishop, then he is ordained a bishop before accepting the office of the Papacy.

Theoretically we could once again have a married pope just like Peter.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

Mysticalguy188 is ... almost correct.

There has been at least one layman (not a priest or bishop) elected: Pope St. Fabian, in 236. Fabian was a farmer who went to Rome along with crowds of others to observe the process of electing a new Pope after the death of Anterus. When a dove suddenly landed on his head, it was considered an unmistakable sign and he was chosen.

It's true that any Catholic man can be elected Pope, and even the election of a married man would not be invalid -- though it would be unlikely in the extreme.

Answer 5

Any baptized Catholic male may become pope. Yes, some popes WERE married and YES if you're married, you can become pope. :-)

Just one cache, there has never been a pope who was not a priest (a bishop, cardinal, etc. are priests too ya' know). The odds of this happening are well, to low to know. :-(

God bless you!

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Answer 7

You must become a priest, bishop, then cardinal before you can be pope.

There are a few married priests who were married before entering the priesthood. This is acceptable, they may even make it to bishop but politically not much chance of ever being a cardinal and that means next to no chance to become pope

Answer 8

Actually I think it's cardinals (not bishops) that are elected Pope. Cardinals in the Catholic Church are not married men.

Answer 9

i think of you mean: can a guy who's a Reform Jew, marry a non Jewish lady? Can he? sure. might desire to he? nicely, that relies upon. Any toddlers heavily isn't Jewish, different than in *some* Reform Synagogues. Judaism passes by way of the mummy, and as right here the lady is Catholic, the youngsters heavily isn't Jewish. Jews symbolize something like 0.01% of the international inhabitants - and our numbers are shrinking simply by fact of interfaith marriages the place, regrettably, the Jewish determine does not prepare his toddlers approximately their Jewish background. So sure, a guy who's a Reform Jew can certainly marry a Catholic lady. i could wish that if he does, he makes effective his toddlers study their Jewish background, inspite of the undeniable fact that, even inspite of the undeniable fact that they won't be defined as Jewish themselves.

Answer 10

Now come on. Aren't you being a little silly. If the Priests aren't allowed to marry ,do you actually think the Pope could.? Besides that you know there's many titles they have to go through to get even close to the Pope title. I think you just wanted to get on here and try to get 2 points. Well, you made it.