Priestly Marriage....

[Monkenstein]

Ok this is really not a question about why priests should or should not get married, i personally don't think they should, and have reasons to say so, but the point of this is to ask any of you people out there is there is any resources i can find on why priests should not get married. if there are any books out there and if there are any goo websites to look at...I am doing a research paper in one of my classes and i want to do it on that, so i would love to find a whole lot of research. anything that anyone can give me i will greatly appreaciate, and i would really appreciate if anybody has something really good, even great to email it to me as soon as possible, sure post it on here, but personally that would be great it you could email it to me...thank you all for the help....God bless
Shalom

[Pontifex]

[url="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_24061967_sacerdotalis_en.html"]http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/...dotalis_en.html[/url]

This is a great document from 1967 that really addressed the social and cultural upheavel and the radical shift of thinking about priesthood and celibacy.

[url="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_jp-ii_exh_25031992_pastores-dabo-vobis_en.html"]http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_pau...o-vobis_en.html[/url]

This is one of John Paul II encyclicals about priesthood and it really cracks open the essential nature of celibacy to priesthood.

These are good places to start.


Peace,

Fr. Pontifex

Edited May 5, 2004 by Pontifex