Re:Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out ...
by skissane on Monday March 13, 2023 @06:03AM
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> Just a reminder that Catholic priests are forbidden to have any family or romantic relationships.
Latin Catholic priests have to be celibate, with rare exceptions (mostly married Protestant clergy who convert to Catholicism). But Eastern Catholic priests (but not bishops) are allowed to be married. Of course, only 1-2% of Catholics are Eastern and the other 98-99% are Latin, which is why people don’t know this
“Any family” is wrong because all Catholic priests are totally allowed to have family relationships with their parents, siblings, nieces/nephews, cousins, etc - just not be married.
Technically a widower with grown children can be ordained a (Latin Catholic) priest-so it isn’t even like children are absolutely impossible-although that’s a rather unlikely scenario in practice (but one I believe actually has happened before)
Latin Catholic priests have to be celibate, with rare exceptions (mostly married Protestant clergy who convert to Catholicism). But Eastern Catholic priests (but not bishops) are allowed to be married. Of course, only 1-2% of Catholics are Eastern and the other 98-99% are Latin, which is why people don’t know this
“Any family” is wrong because all Catholic priests are totally allowed to have family relationships with their parents, siblings, nieces/nephews, cousins, etc - just not be married.
Technically a widower with grown children can be ordained a (Latin Catholic) priest-so it isn’t even like children are absolutely impossible-although that’s a rather unlikely scenario in practice (but one I believe actually has happened before)