IF MARRIAGE WAS ALLOWED FOR THE PRIESTHOOD, WOULD ALL PRIESTS BE ALLOWED TO MARRY IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH?
The
original order of priests in the Christian Church was the equivalent of what
today is known as Diocesan Priests.
According
to the original status of Presbyters, they were always allowed to get married,
even to the level of Bishops and even after ordination, but only once.
Remarriage in case of the death of the spouse was not allowed (1Tim 3:2; Tito
1:6).
In today’s
world however, the Roman Catholic Church has diocesan priests (Men ordained to
serve in a particular diocese and subjected directly to the regional Bishop),
as well as Friars and Monks, ordained as priests to cover the lack of diocesan
presbyters and subjected in function not only to the Bishop of the diocese they
serve in, but also to their Order’s Superior by vow, who in practice has the
ultimate authority over the Friar or Monk, even over the Bishop.
Since friars
priests are bound not only by the Priestly canonical legislation in the Roman
Church, but also by the rules of the Order they belong to; they are subjected
to irrevocable vows pertaining to their religious orders that cannot be broken
and that have nothing to do with the priesthood.
If
marriage was allowed ever in the Roman Catholic Church, this innovation would
affect only and uniquely, to new oncoming Diocesan priests who were willing to
marry before ordination and not to the friars or already ordained Diocesan
Presbyters who had given a permanent vow of celibacy.
Omar
Flores.
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