Should The Vatican Allow Priests To Get Married?
By julito
@antonbunot (11091)
Calgary, Alberta
January 16, 2019 10:10am CST
This morning I was reading a local tabloid of which front page shows a photo of a priest being charged of sex assault. He was arrested the other day for sexually assaulting a woman more than six years ago.
When I was a kid, it was my dream to become a priest. So, after graduating from the elementary grades, I enrolled in a Catholic Seminary. But before completing a college degree, I decided to quit. I believed I could not keep the "vow of celibacy".
Some contemporaries and a classmate in the seminary, who got ordained, had girlfriends. They eventually left the priesthood to start a family. There are priests, who opt not leave the priesthood; but some of them could not "suppress" their fatal attraction to beautiful women (Who does, anyway? Just kidding!
) - - like this priest.
Without too much ado - - SHOULD PRIESTS BE ALLOWED TO MARRY A WIFE OF THEIR OWN? I say yes!
) - - like this priest.
Without too much ado - - SHOULD PRIESTS BE ALLOWED TO MARRY A WIFE OF THEIR OWN? I say yes!8 people like this
8 responses
@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
17 Jan 19
@JudyEv So, what do you think why the Vatican does not allow priests to get married?
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jan 19
@antonbunot I suppose it's come down over hundreds of years and someone way back interpreted the Bible as saying priests should be celibate. But you can find arguments of just about anything in the Bible. It's the humans who interpret the Bible that are the problem. They read into it what they want to read into it.
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jan 19
@antonbunot The wife of a priest would need to be a very special person but other religions have married ministers/priests and you don't hear of them running amok too often.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
16 Jan 19
Celibacy is a personal choice as well as a gift and should never be forced upon, however traditions and rules should also be respected, once you enter an institution or a relgion in this case then be ready to follow otherwise get out and do as you please. I'm just showing both sides of the coin and btw I am not Catholic but got my education in Catholic schools.
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
16 Jan 19
I agree that celibacy is a choice . . I think the Vatican does not want priests to have a family . . to save money! 
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
16 Jan 19
@antonbunot hahaha...do you mean as in spending church collection for their personal needs? The problem is because their churches are centralized and they need to remit I think whereas Christian pastors enjoy some sort of independence with tithes.
@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
16 Jan 19
@db20747 like the diocesan priests! It would be unfair for the priests of different orders .. like the SVD missionaries. I am sure most if not all long to have a wife, too. LOL
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@db20747 (43426)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
16 Jan 19
@antonbunot They have different orders or organizations!! Maybe one of the churches organizations can allow marriage!!!
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
16 Jan 19
Priests have this so-called vow of celibacy . . .
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
17 Jan 19
And God's message is - - GO ON EARTH AND MULTIPLY! Meaning you don't need to get married first before you multiply or even just add!
@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
16 Jan 19
Yeah, they should be . . . and have dozens of children . . .to drain the "cash vault" of the vatican. . . 
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@Swayamsiddha (4358)
• New Delhi, India
16 Jan 19
. But then it is upto the community to decide. We are no one to decide
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@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
16 Jan 19
I don't think it is the community or parishioners who should decide . . it is the pope or Vatican.
