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A Catholic priest in Australia has confessed to the public that he was secretly married last year. Now former Father Kevin Lee of Padre Pio parish in Glenmore Park, Australia, says the Church should relax its rules on celbacy for priests. Continue Reading
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He said he had girlfriends throughout his 20 year priesthood. He doesn't honor vows. He'll probably be an adulterer against the woman he recently married. Doesn't know how to keep a vow. He's also a fornicator. Nothing to be proud about and he's busy creating a crown of shame for himself and anyone gullible enough to listen to him.
To Jan, you wrote, "Celibate should be a choice." You are correct and it WAS a choice for all the Latin Rite Priests. They all took a oath to remain Celibate. Like someone who gets married, they too took an oath to remain faith to their spouse. The problem with today society is that people do not remain faithful to their own oaths!
Thats the problem, we forget---The world, The flesh and the Devil. They seem to think as the world gets more so called advanced and modern so to the Church should forget her task as the Magisterium and the will of Jesus Christ for what is just a fleeting promise.
The fleeting promise is false and will slip away in time. That fleeting promise is greed and lust for things of this world which will not totally satisfy. Were like spoilt children in a candy store. We must return to our goal---Jesus Christ and His Eucharist.
Those who feel they cant go on with priesthood are free to go..this may lessen immoral practices in the church...
They make a fault & fault others for the fault, in this case against the Church itself Typically carnal & against this is Christ come.
This priest forgot that he got married to the Church twenty years ago, and now he simply admits he was unfaitful to her and was using other women for his pleasure. The sad part is that he defends his action and requests Church blessings of his sinful behavior. How normal it is! Aren't we all sinners? Why aren't we falling down on our knees asking God to consecrate us for the sake of the Church? Why?
you have men from other faith to become priest with families but not men of the catholic faith in which they great faith and can serve God people. God doesn not care if they are married, this is a human being rule. it has nothing to do wih with God and he church greed. married men/ women can serve with more compasion and love for all and can even be there more with families and the people they serve. satan really , God gave us the ability to love and serve other whether married or not. other regilion do it why can't we married priest would be a great asses to the church and you would have alot more prients with the help of there familie. i married one and he served God even more because he had the support of his family.
I am..... a practicing Catholic,but also a post Vatican person. The ancient law of celibacy should be removed. Celibate should be a choice.It is a man made law, and could be removed by tthe stroke of a pen.Many man would be called to the Priesthood,and would have a better live with the love of family around him.But I guess that would be too costly.......
I stand with the priests! The Catholic Church ban on married priests is not absolute, we have plenty of married Catholic priests right now, today. Former Episcopal priests are allowed to join the Church and remain married. There are, by estimate, about 50 former Espiscopal married Roman Catholic priests in the United States.
Members of the Eastern rites including Maronite and Ukranian Catholics, among others, are allowed to have married priests and there are many such married Roman Catholic priests throughout the world from the Eastern rites.
If the requirement of celibacy was really a crucial element of the priesthood, which historically it has not been, then it would be universal which it is not. Married priests such as the one we have today serve God and their parishioners quite well. They set an example to the rest of us as to how we can allow married priests and the Church still function. If it were God's will that there be no married priests, why are there so many exceptions to God's will?
The only thing that the priest in Australia did wrong was to belong to the wrong order. Had he married first, then joined the priesthood as a Maronite, Ukranian or other Eastern rites order, he would be a priest and with his family today and no one would say a word.
I for one hope that the Church will recognize that it is time for the Church to extend the exceptions they made long ago, and allow married priests to serve us.
Father Kevin Lee is scandalising his parishioners and causing tremendous harm to the Catholic faith. If he wanted to get married he should not have become a priest. I feel that men like father Lee become priests just for the status it gives them and not for the love of God. Father Kevin Lee is excommunicating himself. He should repent as he is endangering his soul.