Oh, sorry, no last rites for your husband maam, I need to watch my kids while my wife is out grocery shopping. Sorry, no confession for longer than 30 minutes, I have to go make lunch for my kids, my wife is working the morning shift. Can't make it to the funeral sorry, I have a PT meeting because my teenage son got into a fight. No evening masses, I have to do homework with my kids. Can't run the parish finances properly because no time, can't meet people because of shor office hours, can't hold wedding preparation classes, can't run RCIA classes, can't run and organize youth programs, catechesis for the first communion and confirmation, etc etc etc.
I know that it's easy for protestant heretic pastors to marry since all they have to do is hold one 'service' a week, sing Oh happy day and go home.
Isaac Rogers
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Aiden Wilson
Nice sources to go along with your atomic sized assertion. Paranoid much?
Hudson Jenkins
Stop drawing this false analogy. A wish that recognizes people have different gifts and callings, versus a mandatory injunction against marriage.
Even Peter had a wife.
''A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife…One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)'' 1 Tim 3
What part of that don't you understand?
Kevin Hughes
2000 years of "tradition" and they still can't read the bible properly, and they still staple fan-fictions to it.
Woe is them.
Andrew Ross
Yes, one wish that recognizes that not all are fit to care for the things of the Lord but may have been given His gifts elsewhere. But if one IS to care for the things for the Lord, then he is to be unmarried, because otherwise he will be bound by worldly distractions. It is not a false analogy, it is you who are so blinded by your individual pride that you can't read things straight.
The church is the bride of Christ and this is the wife the epistle talks about. You are reading what you want to read, as is the essence of protestantism anyway.
Caleb Kelly
Can the 30,000 denominations do it? Let me guess, yours is the only one that reads it properly!
Benjamin Jenkins
It's definitely a political move to try and ruin society. Just look at the idea of legalizing gay marriage - it shouldn't have been a legal matter to begin with as marriage is a faculty of the church. But now that it's "legalized" they can use that as an attempt to push for more false churches that will allow such a sinful thing. They are trying to undermine the backbone of western society, the one thing that has stayed strong despite numerous attempts at crushing it.
