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Debate: Should Catholic priests be allowed to marry?
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*'''Priestly celibacy is unnatural.''' [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article577213.ece Adrian Ryan. "Should Catholic priests be allowed to marry?". Times Online, Comment. October 11, 2005]: "Celibacy is an unnatural state. How can a priest be expected to advise on the complexities of a normal marital relationship when he himself is utterly ignorant? It is only natural that a priest would want to marry, have a family and experience the love, affection, and fulfillment that marriage can bring. It is high time that the Church recognised and encouraged it. Adrian Ryan, Ardara, Ireland." | *'''Priestly celibacy is unnatural.''' [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article577213.ece Adrian Ryan. "Should Catholic priests be allowed to marry?". Times Online, Comment. October 11, 2005]: "Celibacy is an unnatural state. How can a priest be expected to advise on the complexities of a normal marital relationship when he himself is utterly ignorant? It is only natural that a priest would want to marry, have a family and experience the love, affection, and fulfillment that marriage can bring. It is high time that the Church recognised and encouraged it. Adrian Ryan, Ardara, Ireland." | ||
- | *'''Marriage/sex are honorable; priests should be allowed to marry.''' Paragraph 2362 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2nd ed.) says: "The acts in marriage by which the intimate and chaste union of the spouses takes place are noble and honourable; the truly human performance of these acts fosters the self-giving they signify and enriches the spouses in joy and gratitude."[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article577213.ece] | + | *'''[[Argument: Marriage/sex are sacred; priests should be allowed to marry| Marriage/sex are sacred; priests should be allowed to marry]]''' Paragraph 2362 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2nd ed.) says: "The acts in marriage by which the intimate and chaste union of the spouses takes place are noble and honourable; the truly human performance of these acts fosters the self-giving they signify and enriches the spouses in joy and gratitude."[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article577213.ece] |
*'''Celibacy forces priests to live a life of loneliness.''' [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article577213.ece Ann Bain. "Should Catholic priests be allowed to marry?". Times Online, Comment. October 11, 2005]: "Of course priests should be allowed to marry. There is nothing sadder than seeing an old priest live out his days with no family of his own; the zeal and fervour of youth has gone and ahead, loneliness." | *'''Celibacy forces priests to live a life of loneliness.''' [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article577213.ece Ann Bain. "Should Catholic priests be allowed to marry?". Times Online, Comment. October 11, 2005]: "Of course priests should be allowed to marry. There is nothing sadder than seeing an old priest live out his days with no family of his own; the zeal and fervour of youth has gone and ahead, loneliness." |
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