Don't know the 80's tunes like you kids do. Only one I remember hearing was a Swing number, 'The Music goes Round and Round'. Believe it was from the 20's. Now I'm not really that old, but my parents told me things.
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Reborn2000 said:Just curious, I thought I remembered reading something about their being some married priests that are active today. Could someone tell me if I this is true, or is my memory failing me again.
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Kelly
IRCosmo1 said:I would just like to say that enforced celibacy has no meaning other than those who go for it even though they dont have the gift mean well and are obviously committed to God, will inevitably come a croper.
but i bellieve that those who a deffinate gift for celibacy will undoutedly be blessed and fulfilled by it. ( they will still find people whom they are tempted by )
I am about to be married and have been celibate since becomuing a christian about ten years of which four i took a two two year probationary celibate vows as i tried to find out if i had the Gift.
I do recomend seeking celibacy even if you are to be married as it is the higher way (Jesus was a celibate after all) but in scripture it does also say that it is good to marry ...
CopticOrthodox said:The Catholic Church is made up of about 23 Churches in Communion under the Pope. The Latin Catholic or Roman Catholic Church is the only one of them that does not have married priests. In all the Eastern Catholic Churches (which are equally Catholic as the Roman Catholics), married men are often ordained preists, although no priest may marry. ... It's just a discipline of the west.
All the Orthodox Churches also have married priests, and have since the time of the Apostles. ...
Wolseley said:Ah, methinks you mean Titus, not "Titans". Unless you're talking about Greek mythology.
The text in question is Titus 1:6, in which Paul directs Titus to appoint presbyters (priests) in every town who are "blameless and married only once". 1 Timothy 3:2 says the same thing about bishops, and 1 Timothy 3:12 says likewise concerning deacons.
In the early years of the Christian Faith, clergy did marry. As time went on, however, celibacy became more and more the norm, based in no small part on Paul's advice in 1 Corinthians 7:32-35, in which he imparts that if a man is unmarried, he is free of marital distractions and is able to work full-time for the Lord. Celibacy was imposed Church-wide in the Catholic Church by the 2nd Lateran Council in 1139. Since the Church imposed this law, she could just as easily abolish it----but that's extremely unlikey to happen.
That having been said, keep in mind that in the Catholic Faith, the bottom line for rules pertaining to faith and doctrine is the Magesterium of the Church, not the Bible.
Blessings,
---Wols.