Why can't catholic priests get married?

[gescalier]

It's just my opinion:
I guess because priests are to be like the disciples who were not married. The bible also says that it is better to not be married, but if you truly have a need for companionship then rather than sin you should marry. Priests choose to sacrifice marriage for the love of God & the calling they hear. As further proof, note that there are in fact some married Catholic priests today. If a man is a married minister of another faith, then converts to Catholicism and wishes to become a priest, he is allowed to do so and stay married. Thus the objection is not one of a fundamental or even theological nature but more of a practical one. I think it's about tradtition.
I also think it must depends on the Rite to which we belong, which is the Western Rite, together with the Roman Rite.

According to the Catholic Faith, a Rite represents an ecclesiastical, or church, tradition about how the sacraments are to be celebrated. Each of the sacraments has at its core an essential nature which must be satisfied for the sacrament to be confected or realized. This essence – of matter, form and intention – derives from the divinely revealed nature of the particular sacrament. It cannot be changed by the Church. Scripture and Sacred Tradition, as interpreted by the Magisterium, tells us what is essential in each of the sacraments (2 Thes. 2:15).

When the apostles brought the Gospel to the major cultural centers of their day the essential elements of religious practice were inculturated into those cultures. This means that the essential elements were clothed in the symbols and trappings of the particular people, so that the rituals conveyed the desired spiritual meaning to that culture. In this way the Church becomes all things to all men that some might be saved (1 Cor. 9:22).

There are three major groupings of Rites based on this initial transmission of the faith, the Roman, the Antiochian (Syria) and the Alexandrian (Egypt). Later on, the Byzantine derived as a major Rite from the Antiochian, under the influence of St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom. From these four derive the over 20 liturgical Rites present in the Church today.

When I was in the seminary I met many catholic priests from Ukraine that belong to the Byzantine Rite and they were permitted to get married but, because they decided to, they didn't, and they remain in a celibate state.

So I'm just courious about it.

What do you think?

Thy Kingdom come!

Blessings

Gilberto Escalier
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[Catholic Dad]

Gilberto,

I would like to point out that not all of the Apostles were bachelors. Read Mark 1:29-31

[Rosalia]

Being things Catholic, one can always enroll on an Orthodoxy seminary and be a married priest.

Nonetheless, the discipline on clergy's celibacy only makes sense. It is no doubt the best way to serve the Kingdom.

In Christ,

Rosalia.
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[queeny]

Every man is entitled to their own opinion, but remember this in the last day when our savior comes. He is the only one and Our Heavenly Father have the last say about this.

Marketing Chiropractic
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