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by Santaanacanyon on July 5th, 2003

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Why are Catholic Priests forbidden to marry?

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  • by allanbz on February 3rd, 2005

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    Some Catholic priests can marry.

    The eastern patriarchates, while in full communion with the Holy Catholic Church, under the authority of the Roman Pontiff, and bearing the whole faith and Tradition handed down to them from Jesus and the apostles, have their own disciplinary law, individual rites, traditions (as opposed to Tradition) that have developed native to their lands and are best suited to those lands. Many if not most eastern rites allow priests the married state.

    Those Catholic priests that were ordained under the discipline of the Latin Rite and under the authority of the patriarch of Rome are forbidden the vocation of marriage by the canon laws that govern them.

    Also, I believe that Anglican and Episcopalian married priests who return to the authority of the Catholic Church remain married.

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    • Accurate:

      Truth Monger

      by Truth Monger on April 22nd, 2005

    • Probably just a typo, but Eastern priests can not marry, though married men may become priests.

      Snowgen

      by Snowgen on May 2nd, 2005

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