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Bishop Edward Daly Calls for Married Priests
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Anonymous
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I will be very interested in seeing what happens with this. I don't expect any reversal by the current pope. But he is too important to Irish Church history to be swept aside, either.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/13/top-irish-catholic-cleric-calls-for-church-to-end-celibacy-for-priests/ |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| I don't get it. |
Anonymous
What don't you get? An iconic bishop in the Catholic Church is calling for an end to required celibacy for priests. It is against Church doctrine. Usually these guys are excommunicated but how can you do that to him? |
Anonymous
Celibacy is a discipline, not a doctrine. There have always been married priests, and in some Rites, there are currently married priests. Excommunication would not be an issue. I don't think you understand the Church very accurately. |
Anonymous
| Finally!!! |
Anonymous
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I think it's a great idea. I'm Episcopalian, and my grandfather was a married Episcopalian priest. I think it would improve their pool of candidates if people knew they didn't have to take a vow of celibacy and give up the idea of family and kids. Plus i think it could be helpful in pre-marital counseling (which the church requires) for priests to have actual marital experience.
But that's just me. (and I'm not married. Or Catholic.) |
Anonymous
I think PP doesn't get the image. Nor do I. |
Anonymous
| As a Catholic, I say Amen to married priests. (First of all, there are already married priests, Episcopal ones who left that church to become Catholic priests.) There is no shortage of young people who want to become ministers and rabbis -- the Catholic church needs to expand its pool of clergy. |
Anonymous
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I don't get the image either.
I'm Catholic. And my priest thinks that priests should, and ultimately will, be allowed to marry. There already are married Catholic Priests. If you are a married Priest in the Episcopalian Church and you decide to become a Catholic Priest, you can remain married. However, married Catholic Priests are rarely seen in the parish. They are usually behind a desk. |
Anonymous
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I didn't get the picture either until I read the paragraph. That's supposed to be Daly in the image.
I left the Catholic Church to become an Episcopalian in part because of the sex scandal and the Church's rigidity on the issue of married priests. Daly is saying something that is only common sense -- and although the Church moves very slowly, it will eventually see the wisdom in loosening its rules. I just don't want to spend my life waiting for it to happen. |
Anonymous
| I'm the PP. I meant to say "until I read the article." The second to last paragraph explains the image. |
Anonymous
| The image is just an example of why Daly is well known and respected in Ireland. It's a mural (probably in the bogside in Derry) of his participation in Civil Rights marches in Northern Ireland in the early years of The Troubles. The mural itself depicts Bloody Sunday. |
Anonymous
There have always been and there currently are married Roman Catholic priests? |
Anonymous
Well, early on, they were all married. The whole non-marriage celibacy thing came from the Catholic church not wanting to give up property in divorces. Now, yes, there are a few, and it's because they were already married when they became Catholic priests. If you google it, you'll probably see an interview they did with a bunch of them a while ago. |