Piests giving marital advice

United States
August 29, 2009 1:40pm CST
Do you think priests should be alouded to give out marital advice even though they have never been married or with a woman? I don't. They have not experienced any of that and shouldn't give out that kind of advice! I'm not Catholic and think it should be banned! Any opinions?
4 responses
• United States
29 Aug 09
No. Just like I should not give you cardiac advice, I'm not a cardiologist.
@zoey7879 (3092)
• Quincy, Illinois
29 Aug 09
Catholic of otherwise.. No one is making you listen to them, so I'm not sure what that really has to do with it. There are PLENTY of clergy out there who actually do give advice and counseling without bringing faith of religion into the matter. I'm not married and never have been, and I fix up people's marriage and relationship issues ALL the time... Too often, sadly enough. Does someone have to jump off of a bridge to know and talk about the likely outcome? Nah.
@dianmelydia (2269)
• Indonesia
29 Aug 09
I think it's a funny thing but it still can make some sense for me. Let me think first. A priest giving marital advice, perhaps it's hard for us if we want that priest give us his own experience because it's impossible. But we should hear his advice as well because usually priests can give some advice based on his case study on other people problem. So, i think however a priest is still has more experiences than us if we are a single. So, don't look down on a priest eventhough it is about something they never ever can do it such as get married. A priest can give us many useful advice on how to live our after married living, usually that advice is based on other believers' experiences who successfully built their happy family. I think that's why sometimes there's a witness program held by church. Good luck and have a nice day. Happy mylotting.
@John4Christ (1597)
• India
29 Aug 09
Well offcourse they are not married but then they do have the knowledge about the families and how it should be......as they themselves were a part of some family before they were priests......they also study on family and its behavior when they are in seminary.......and apart from that they also do counseling for so many families so they know what are the common problems in a family and how it could be overcome....... So I don't really feel there is any harm in them giving us marital advice as they always give us advice in lieu of the Holy Bible and how god wants us to run our family there are so many chapters in the bible which speaks about family, husband a and wife, children and so on......so the guidelines are already mentioned in the bible.......but humans as we are we never like to follow any of those !!!!!