In the early Catholic church, the church was face with a problem of losing their vast cumulative wealth to inheritance. To prevent losing land and wealth to inheritance, the Church imposed celibacy.
The result was centuries of systematic sex crimes behind the curtain. Many old literature commonly shows priests having bastand children. With the mondern technology, no longer these cover ups were easy for the Church; thus, number of new and young priests has dropped and the Catholic church faces great danger of diminishing number of priests as old priests die and no young priests able to handle real celibat life.
2007-12-21 23:05:42 · 7 answers · asked by Traveler 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is true, as much as the catholic cult hates to admit it. The Bible says that a few might choose to be celibate, but that's just a few. Peter himself was a married man.
The catholic cult worked out this plan to keep the riches in the genocidal Vatican.
2007-12-22 01:15:34 · answer #1 · answered by Chris 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Partly. This idea of a celibate clergy came from the Jews, John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Apostle Paul. The Jews. The Talmud argues that a person whose “soul is bound up with the Torah and is constantly occupied with it” may remain celibate (Maimonides, Laws of Marriage 15.3). For example, Yahweh ordered the prophet Jeremiah not to marry (Jeremiah 16:1-4). Moreover, the Essenes was a group that was active in Jesus’ time that practiced celibacy and thought by most scholars to be the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. WWJD? What would Jesus do? Jesus did not marry. John the Baptist and Jesus are both believed to have been celibate for their entire lives. Some scholars believe that the example of the Essenes influenced either or both Jesus and John the Baptist in their celibacy. The Apostle Paul is explicit about his celibacy (see 1 Cor. 7). There is also evidence in the gospel of Matthew for the practice of celibacy among at least some early Christians, in the famous passage about becoming “eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Matt. 19:12). The concept took many twists and turns over the years and will probably take a few more before Christ returns in glory. With love in Christ.
2016-05-25 22:38:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alot of this comes from the time of Christ the romans have alot to do with the founding of the church fot instance worship on Sunday when the Lord actually made what we know as Sat to be a day of worship God gave us numbers the Romans gave us the name s of the week named after the stars . The Churchs are begining to allow the Preist to be wed . The process has already begun some preist have already married. How about that?
2007-12-21 23:23:08 · answer #3 · answered by song Bird 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The various forms of chastity
2348 All the baptized are called to chastity. The Christian has "put on Christ,"135 the model for all chastity. All Christ's faithful are called to lead a chaste life in keeping with their particular states of life. At the moment of his Baptism, the Christian is pledged to lead his affective life in chastity.
2349 "People should cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life. Some profess virginity or consecrated celibacy which enables them to give themselves to God alone with an undivided heart in a remarkable manner. Others live in the way prescribed for all by the moral law, whether they are married or single."136 Married people are called to live conjugal chastity; others practice chastity in continence:
There are three forms of the virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the second that of widows, and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of them to the exclusion of the others. . . . This is what makes for the richness of the discipline of the Church.137
2350 Those who are engaged to marry are called to live chastity in continence. They should see in this time of testing a discovery of mutual respect, an apprenticeship in fidelity, and the hope of receiving one another from God. They should reserve for marriage the expressions of affection that belong to married love. They will help each other grow in chastity.
2007-12-21 23:25:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well the virgin mary wasn't a virgin after the birth of christ, it talks about her coming to christ with his brothers and sisters.
2007-12-21 23:15:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I have to disagree with the reason you gave and say it was more because celibacy is considered to be so holy, such as the virgin Mary. The rest of what you said, I agree with.
2007-12-21 23:10:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
that is simply not true.
do your own research and not just pass on another bias against the Catholics.
2007-12-21 23:08:50 · answer #7 · answered by The Asker 4 · 4⤊ 4⤋