If You Were Made The Pope, The Most Immediate Change You Would Make Is To Allow Priests Get Married?

No, i don´t think Priests should get merry.

For that situation already exhists another type of person. A married person may do almost all the things a Priest does, with only some limitations, if he study for that.

It´s better this way: that persons may merry, a real Priest shouldn´t.

Priest used to be allowed to marry but it was banned in the 4th century. As was allowing women to become priests. However, by the 15th century only 50% of priests were unmarried.

Also, Orthodox priests are still allowed to marry.

There is a reason why priests have been asked to abstain from having a romantic life. I've come to believe that God had a plan and this is wisdom. They should not be distracted from leading a church, or the other work they do, by personal issues. I would encourage my priest to seek help for his worldly desires or if he did not feel that he wanted help for it, he consider that his calling was not true and he should depart the priesthood, at least not remain Catholic.

Look, I came to this church late but one thing I can tell you the true Catholic believes: this church table is not spread with a buffet where you can pick and choose what you want. This is a table with a dinner, and you take it all or don't eat nothing.

Probably yes. It would stop those catholic priests from getting in the news all the time.

I would shut down the Institution, loose all the stupid clothes and open up the best Gospel preaching place in the world. Take the money and start farms in Africa, so Europe doesn't have to supply charity without real getting dirty stuff. Build hospitals without politics, and create the worlds biggest African Evangelist movement preaching the Gospel.

Unfortunately, or maybe Fortunately God is going to Destroy Rome and the Catholic Institution, and do this whole thing anyway.

Praise God

A priest can be married,just not in the Roman Rite. There are plenty of other rites in the Church where priests may be married. In the Roman Rite the priest stands in persona Christi and as such stands in the same state as Christ, which is single.

I was told by a man in seminary school that priests could once get married, and that the only reason the church stopped it was because they didn't want to have to pay for a priest's wife's expenses, travelling for missionary services and such.

I don't know the facts, but it sounds like a frugal business decision, and the Catholic church is the richest business in the world.

The Catholic Church is not going to abandon its position on celibacy as requirement for the priesthood any time soon.

While married priests were ordained in the earliest days of the Church, they were special cases - not the norm. Married priests were expected to remain celibate, but there was no specific vow that required them to do so.

After the Church realized that many married priests were not celibate, the practice changed to ordain only single men who had to vow to lifelong celibacy.

The most pressing change I would make would be to put greater emphasis on teaching priests the proper way to handle their sexual urges and give them the help and support they need to remain celibate.

See Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_celibacy_(Ca

It would certainly be on my 'must do' list, along with allowing women to become priests, excommunicating priests guilty of paedophilia and giving my blessing to the use of condoms in order to curb the spreading of STDs. I would also put a stop to the condemnation of homosexuals - somehow I don't think I'd ever get to be pope with these views, even if I was the right sex!

I wouldn't allow priests to get married. One of the things they promise to do is to remain in chastity. I think this is something important to do. I know St. Therese was never a priest, but she was a nun and nuns make the same vow of chastity. I remember she would call herself, "The Bride". She served God. And the reason why priest don't marry is Jesus wasn't married. He served God as a virgin never married. If you are thinking of getting married, you can always be ordained as a Deacon. That's if and only if God is calling you to do this.

I do not have sources so to speak, but after speaking with a former Catholic, friend of mine. She shared with me that Priests used to be allowed to marry, but the church changed it due to property rights or something after a priest died.

Before I become someone's target, I am admitting that I do not know if this is true and haven't found it documented anywhere, but just wanted to write what I have heard.

After trying to look it up, I've found many other possibilities.

The Bible is clear that a person should marry as opposed to burn with lust.

1 Corinthians 7:9 (New King James Version)

9 but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

The priest who was chosen among us, the best among us to

serve God, the Church, and the religional community. I think the priest should not marry if he want to serve God and people with the best he has

I am a son of God, so how could I be made Pope? It would be impossible.

One has to be a counterfeiter - a man of religion with the sole desire to make lots of money in order to be made Pope.

If priests knew their Bible they would marry and tell the Pope to go take a run and jump!!

Peter the Apostle was married and had children by that marriage.

If I was the Pope, I'll sell all my bling and my castle because every little bit helps the needy and I'm not going to let the priests be transferred to another church when they get caught having sex with children and cover it up=)

I think the biggest change would be to allow marriage if a person so chooses. The next biggest would be to stay out of world affairs.