I don't know what religions do allows their priests or ministers to get married so maybe someone can enlighten me but something I've thought about for along time now is that I think all Catholic Priests should be allowed to get married. There is actually a priest at my old grade school who is married. He used to be a Lutheran priest and I guess they are allowed to be married in that Church and he then transferred to the Catholic side and the Church doesn't make him get divorced (obviously...although it wouldn't have surprised me if they did try that haha).
I thought this mentality was a younger generation way of thinking but my grandma (who is 91), and my parents who are both 59 agree that they should be allowed to get married. We don't see the Catholic Church doing that anytime soon but wonder if when they run out of Priests maybe they will be forced to change their minds. The fact that they cannot get married is an archaic way of thinking IMO. I think if you allow them to get married you'd see more men become priests.
I've heard the argument that if you allowed them to get married you'd have less of them molesting kids as a result but I don't really agree with that. I don't think that goes hand in hand with why that has happened.
Thoughts?
I thought this mentality was a younger generation way of thinking but my grandma (who is 91), and my parents who are both 59 agree that they should be allowed to get married. We don't see the Catholic Church doing that anytime soon but wonder if when they run out of Priests maybe they will be forced to change their minds. The fact that they cannot get married is an archaic way of thinking IMO. I think if you allow them to get married you'd see more men become priests.
I've heard the argument that if you allowed them to get married you'd have less of them molesting kids as a result but I don't really agree with that. I don't think that goes hand in hand with why that has happened.
Thoughts?