Yeah, seems pretty screwey...kinda like a social worker fresh out of college with no kids.What the hell does a catholic priest know about marriage or any real adult relationship?
It is sad to see people being so ignorant. Before you make comments on how a preist is out of his skill set or anything of the such you should understand what marriage is. Its not a contract and until you realize it is a sacrament in the eyes of god and both parties involved
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Just like in all counseling, education and experience.
Did you know that no marriage counselors (even non-priests) are required to have been married?
An experienced and understanding priest can have thousands of hours of marriage counseling under his belt. He probably has heard every story several times. He knows what to say and how to say it. He will know more about real life marriage than most (not all) married couples.
Even a relatively new priest has taken counseling and psychology classes in his (at least) eight years of college and further years of on the job training.
By the way, priests are real adults and have real adult relationships. They just happen to be celibate relationships just like those of hundreds of millions of single adults in the world.
With love in Christ.
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The priest knows more about marriage than half of the couples who have been married.
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Wrong.
1) Marriage is a Sacred institution forged in a Holy Sacrament. How knows more about the Sacred than priests?
2) Also, there's more to marriage than sex. One does not need to have had sex in order to know something about it.
For example: Sex is a Sacred Act. It is the consumation of the marital union - which is why it must only take place between a husband and wife.
Bet you didn't know that, and here I thought non-priests were the experts on sex.
Lastly, it is theologically possible for a married man to become a priest. I bet you didn't know that either. So much for non-priestly wisdom when it comes to sex and marriage.
How can any professional, or just anyone in general, know about something they haven't experienced for themselves? But you still go to your friends for advise don't you? You still go to family members for their insight. as human beings, they have insight into the human condition.
Also of note, The Church doesn't allow divorce. Any divorce of a Catholic couple would be civil, and not at all recognised by the Church, so there would be no reason for a court to force them to see a priest.
Priests know about marriage from training and observation. I mean, how much does the COUPLE know about marriage before being married? Training and observation.
As for your complaint about counseling, is sex the only reason you want a divorce? Highly unlikely. Usually the problems that lead couples to divorce have NOTHING to do with sex, and the priest is fully trained and capable of helping them get things worked out. Matrimony is a SACRAMENT for Catholics, and priests have an interest in helping couples achieve healthy, happy marriages.
I agree to an extent there are problems with the Catholic Church but you cannot say that you will make changes from within on thing such as abortion, homosexuality, birth control or women priests. These are basic tenents of our faith. If these are things that you feel that strongly about then it would be right for you to leave the Catholic Church because you are not in communion with the Church. If you are upset with the music at mass or the amount of time your parish or diocese spends with the poor by all means speak up and work to change it, but what people have to realize is that the Catholic Church is a package deal when it comes to the tenents of the faith. If there are things in the Catechism that you are not sure about study and learn why we believe such a thing because once you start picking and choosing which parts of the Catechism to believe you have started making your own rules. This happend long ago in the 1500 a man was upset, and for the most part rightly so with the Catholic Church but he decided to make his own rules. That man was Martin Luther and we all know what happened next. So while I agree with your statement on the outset, there are certain things that will not change and that is why we are the Catholic Church. God Bless!!!
Marriage and family life is not just a human institution but a divine decree and has supernatural meaning. So the priest knows the purpose of God in making a man and a woman into a single flesh in marriage.
1) Some Catholic priests are married. They are very common in the Eastern rites of the Catholic Church.
2) I've never heard of this requirement you allege. Do you have a source?
Exactly. It's like asking your newspaper deliver man to perform open heart surgery on you. Religion...
One of many non biblical problems with Catholicism.
Not much, really, huh?
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