why do priests think should get married unless they are confessing jesus was also married? its a fraud.?
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as a Catholic cantor I know many dozens of Priests personally who are fed up with the wrong media messages that are doing the rounds about celibacy, all the Priests that I know love their calling and accept the gift of celibacy with joy, a small percentage of Priests have been used as the voice of all the Priesthood and denounced celibacy and this is not indicative of the vast majority.
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Usually, no. According to Canon law, priests are supposed to take a vow of celibacy and say unmarried. There are a few Catholics priest who are married, however. Some priests in Eastern Catholic churches, such as in Hungary, Slovakia, etc..., are allowed to get married because their traditions are more like Eastern Orthodox religions. A few priests are married in the United States, but they were priests in another religion before converting and did not get married while they were Catholic. If a Lutheran priest gets married and converts to Roman Catholicism, the church does not expect him to get divorced, so he gets to keep his wife. In those circumstances, those priests are not required to keep a vow of celibacy either. If a person starts being a Roman Catholic priest and takes a vow of celibacy and is not married, he is not allowed to get married or have sex afterwards.
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Because this practice(along with others) by Catholics is not scripturally based. \n\ntosmith
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I'm a Catholic. I know of a regional priest here who left the Church to marry a woman. He's now an Episcopal priest. As the media is all too happy to inform us, there are also a number of gay priests out there. I suppose that some priests find the Church's demands for a  celibate clergy too much to live up to. That may be the real issue, with the gay-vs-straight issue being something of a smokescreen (gay or straight, celibacy isn't for everyone). I know that celibacy was certainly a concern of mine when I was considering becoming a monk (a move that would've required me to emotionally and physically abandon my girlfriend). What people aren't concentrating on is the vast majority of priests who handle it just fine and are doing their jobs efficiently.
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So that the ordinary masses of people feel guilty! And people who feel guilty are more easily led and/or influenced/manipulated.\n\nImagine if you considered yourself innocent and not guilty, why would you need priests to help you in the first place? \n\nYou could directly communicate with a Higher Being. No need for people inbetween. But that would rob the clergy their powers! So they continue to tell us that we have sinned, that we're bad people and that we need THEM to get redemption.\n\nHumbug.
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I am not a priest but I am Catholic so I hope I can give you some help on this.  I was not Catholic when I married my Catholic husband.  I was christened as a child but I can't remember if they even asked for any documentation to prove that.  But we did have to meet with a priest to clear up issues about how any children would be raised, etc.  And, anyone getting married in the Catholic Church must attend pre-cana classes.  Also, I was not allowed, of course, to take communion during the ceremony.
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I don't think it's that big of a deal either. Whether Jesus was married or not changes nothing for me. And it seems to make more sense that he was with Mary all the time if she was his wife, I always found it odd that he hung out with a prostitute. I think Catholics see sex as "sinful" so Jesus can't have any part of that. But then why is called Holy Matrimony? How is it wrong with your spouse? i don't care either way, there are more important issues for people to argue over!
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Why get married AT ALL if it's not something you want?  People take a leap into Nothing when getting married.  By that I mean only their Faith and Trust holds the bond connected.  \n\nHumans have Free Will; and that comes with the responsibility to do what's right, including NOT getting married.  If the notion of awakening next to the same person for YEARS until death parts you from them is not in your heart, then DON'T GET MARRIED!\n\nDon't go in with a doubt, or without counseling.  There are courses for people seeking marriage in the Catholic church just for the fact that they don't know what they're gonna feel later and why.  The marriage must be a faith-based union, meaning you're  going to church together, spiritually awake to one another, and emotionally aware of what's happening.\n\n"So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." - Matthew 19:6\n\nMy wife knows my vanity and self-centeredness, and also knows ALL my support and love are with her.  Despite my flaws she also wanted to marry me, and has forgiven my numerous chaotic and emotional misgivings.  We have been married 4 years, dated for 6 including 3 years she was at college out-of-town.\n\nI hope you find a spouse as loving & giving as I have.\n\nGood luck & God Bless!\n\n\nJaime
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I have found that some sects in Christianity have no problem with this type of ceremony.  I know that as my husband and I got married (he's catholic and I was raised jewish) that the Catholic Church would have no problem with us getting married and would request a neutral location and that clergy from both religions be allowed to preside. I think the 2 faiths are used to crossing over in some cases.
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Yes.  Technically even the ones who have been laicized perform valid sacraments but are forbidden to do so except in emergency situations.  As to the ordinary married priests either of the Roman Church or in the Eastern Churches, their ordination is certainly valid.  A sizeable segment of the Catholic Church has always ordained married men.  Most married men ordained to the Roman Patriarch are done under the principal of economy.  Examples are Anglican priests, Methodist ministers and I think there may have been a Presbyterian or two.  The Orthodox of course do not need to be ordained again as they are already ordained.
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I agree, Jesus could not have gotten married and had a child.\nJesus was only sent here for the purpose of teaching the deciples and spreading Gods word to many, and as a sacrifice to die in our place  for sins.\nJesus was a sacrifice without a spot, it is mentioned, that the mesiah was clean of sin.\nThe Davinci Code is yet another example of swaying from the bible to tell biblical untruths, to create a stir, and to make money, I would not be involved in such blasmophy.
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Annulment is a procedure of the Catholic church whereby a marriage is considered to have been "null" from the beginning because of some problem ... so from God's point of view, the marriage was not a true marriage when the vows were exchanged.  It looks from an examination of my search page as though the pages explaining the causes for annulment aren't available anymore(!)  This is too bad, as there are many causes, including fraud (somebody tells you they're rich before you marry them, then afterwards it turns out they aren't), mental incompetence (their vow is invalid 'cause they can't think straight), I think even not having been married in the Catholic church was a reason (I had copied it all out a few years back).  Apparently there are also civil annulments in some states.  Here's one webpage ...\nhttp://marriage.about.com/od/annulments/
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The Catholic Church does in fact "frown" on divorce.  However, you can pretty much commit just about any sin, pay a fee (some are heavier than others) and be reinstated in the church.
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Why not?  People complain it is against God.  so those who feel that way should decline wedding invitations from gays.  MAN makes these rules and uses God as an excuse.  There are religions where a man can have many wives; do you  hear anyone complaining?  Anyway marriage does not have to be a religious ceremony.  People get married every day by a Justice of the Peace, a Mayor, even a ship's captain.  atheists get married.  what's the big deal?   so all the people who think this is a sin, would leave the "sinners" alone,  after all isn't it their God's job to judge them?  and to "punish".  They do believe their God gave them "free will" don't they?
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In the catholic religion it is considered sinful to display sexual feelings of any sort in public and anywhere other than the privacy of your bedroom. It's very funny because Catholics try so hard to put on a front like they aren't sexual freaks like the rest of us...but recently it has been discovered that the biggest cheaters on this earth is that of married catholic men and freakiest young chicks are those that belong to a catholic family. the most rebelious young man belongs to a catholic family and the most immoral "church figure" belongs to the catholic religion. Catholics seem like they have it all together on the outside but they are so meesed up on the inside....which is why they are so judgemental to anything that is different such as ..playing with yourself. According to Catholic methodology...playing with yourself is, in fact, a sin.
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Well... the church has a history of hiding the facts that question their stance. This question of the church coverups has come up most recently because of the release of some new gospels, and their messages went in the face of much of the churches opinions and beliefs. The difficult thing is that these new gospels were kept from being in the bible by church officials over a thousand years after Christs death. The gospels in question were discarded during the cutting process. This could be looked at ascovering up the truth of Christ. As for the validity of Jesus having a wife and children, well, time may tell.
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I agree. This whole Catholic Church priest thing has gotten ridiculous. As if the Catholic Church is the only religion who has this problem. I think it has to do with people not understanding the need for Priests to be celibate and assuming that's leads to pedophillia, which it doesn't.