Hehehehe, what an amendment...>>.>how about them halting worshipping Mary?

Lmao!! What about the sisters?

Anything not built on the foundations of the TRUE WORD OF GOD will definately collapse. Tis just a matter of time.

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Hmmmm..I now know why Benedict retired... He don't wanna be part of the dirty job.

pheesayor: 1 Corinthians 7 explains it all. Get married if you can't hold yourself. Paul wasn't married but knew the dangers so he advised people to marry. Konji nor me small thing o

Una fit back up anything with bible sha!

If you cannot live the life of celibacy why go into the Priesthood or become a reverend sister or a Reverend Brother.
May the Lord be with the Church.

End time

Modernization and civilization.

People looking for reasons to justify their actions.

O.k but what the Nuns and Monks? Especially the Nuns.

mollytinrox: then there isnt anything distinct about the roman catholic church anymore.

the holy Eucharist which is incomparable

Who knows, maybe that will help curb the endemic paedophilia that has eaten deep into the catholic church.

This is a welcome development. How does getting married affect the perfomance of a priest discharging his duties? If presidents who are very busy can live a married life then why cant priests? Priests are not even busy people in the real sense of the word. The decision by the catholic church to ban priests from getting married doesnt make any sense at all.

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djeezy: Hehehehe, what an amendment...>>.>how about them halting worshipping Mary?

when you don not understand english ask<<<Honour is different from what you call worship>>>>>

That catholic priest could not marry is not from the beginning of the church, it starts 1100 years later and it has to do with the money and nothing more.
I know some Kids from catholics priest and no one will say anything. It is only the catholic church where priest cannot marry and i know it will help the church.

When you know the history of the catholic church than you will understand.

What of Reverend sisters.?

If they wish to marry,. I dont see any probnlem with that, after all been unmarried dosent make them holy,

Welcome development....at least a cushioning effect to astronomic decrease in availability of husbands....fresh air to the ladies out there...hehehe priests too must flex.Welcome development....at least a cushioning effect to astronomic decrease in availability of husbands....fresh air to the ladies out there...hehehe priests too must flex.Welcome development....at least a cushioning effect to astronomic decrease in availability of husbands....fresh air to the ladies out there...hehehe priests too must flex.

On the last day judgement will be on individual basis and not collective.

It was just his opinion and not a general opinion.
God knows best

Sometimes too many changes to a cause can become detrimental. There's this thing I've always loved about the Catholic...before. Despite the advent and the changes in the world (espeically in Christian dome) over time, they've managed to maintain and preserve their age long traditions. Now those old traditions that I feel have helped the Church in maintaining some sanity gets chopped up daily.
First I heard the Pope registered on Twitter. Then the meeting with footballers. His trending Twitter Photos. The Pope this. The Pope that. The Pope welcomed her Majesty, bowing to her in greetings. Something previously never heard of before. Cool.
Now Priests are to be married? What then is the Catholic church about?

Am not against any of these. Not at all. Whatever the Church has to do to tally, make peace, make friends, change the world's mindset about it's activity and win new convert is a welcomed development, innit?
I still feel the Catholic church should tread carefully sha. We have too many Penticostal churches and their doctrines to contend with. Am not sure the Christian dome can accomodate another Pentecostal church as big as the Catholics.

If francis does'nt watch the pace at which he shreds traditions of over 1,500 years, there will be a coup in the vatican. He should'nt forget that his predessesor is watchung him from the corner.

Sex don begin hungry una shey?

And this is what ‎​I call END TIME tins

Sometimes too many changes to a cause can become detrimental. There's this thing I've always loved about the Catholic...before. Despite the advent and the changes in the world (espeically in Christian dome) over time, they've managed to maintain and preserve their age long traditions. Now those old traditions that I feel have helped the Church in maintaining some sanity gets chopped up daily.
First I heard the Pope registered on Twitter. Then the meeting with footballers. His trending Twitter Photos. The Pope this. The Pope that. The Pope welcomed her Majesty, bowing to her in greetings. Something previously never heard of before. Cool.
Now Priests are to be married? What then is the Catholic church about?

Am not against any of these. Not at all. Whatever the Church has to do to tally, make peace, make friends, change the world's mindset about it's activity and win new convert is a welcomed development, innit?
I still feel the Catholic church should tread carefully sha. We have too many Penticostal churches and their doctrines to contend with. Am not sure the Christian dome can accomodate another Pentecostal church as big as the Catholics.

The shortage of Catholic priests is an economic drama playing out across major countries to a yawn by the news media.

In the United States, 20 percent of parishes have no priests. Since 1995, bishops have sold more than 1,700 churches – on average, that’s a church shuttered once a week for 18 years — down-sizing a religious infrastructure that had grown steadily between the end of the Civil War and the 1969 voyage that put Americans on the moon.

The pastor is the fundraiser at every parish. Healthy parishes offer a range of services, from food pantries to therapeutic counseling, in addition to Mass, baptisms, weddings and funerals. Most of the non-sacramental work is done by lay people because of a growing personnel crisis.

The budget that lay staff uses to run offices and social outreach depends on the pastor’s appeal to the flock. Without a pastor, parishes struggle to pay for themselves.

For every 100 priests who retire, only 30 men are ordained, according to Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research on the Apostolate.

In 2006 the US had one priest for every 1,510 Catholics. That’s more than Mexico, which has a majority Catholic population, yet only one priest for every 6,276 Catholics.

The most potent protest over the root problem — mandatory celibacy that bars a married clergy — has come from Austria, which has only 3,800 priests, but a lightning rod in Helmut Schüller, an otherwise mild-mannered priest who saw things he didn’t like, and spoke out.

Once the vicar-general, or top assistant, to Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, in 2011 the 64-year old Schüller promoted an “Appeal to Disobedience”, endorsing communion for divorced Catholics as one symbolic gesture in calling for the church to embrace a program of realistic change.

In response, Pope Benedict had Schüller stripped of his status as monsignor.

Schüller, still a priest, has a popular support base for his reform agenda, which has drawn interest in the United States, where he embarks on a 15-city speaking tour on July 16. His tour is sponsored by a consortium of reform groups under the rubric Catholic Tipping Point, and he will speak in Chicago, Cleveland, San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland, Cincinnati, New York, among other stops and speak July 22 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Most of these dioceses have been rattled by parish closings, financial stress or fall out from litigation over clergy sex abuse. San Diego and Portland weathered draining bankruptcy proceedings before agreeing to large settlements.

The pinch caused by the shrinking numbers of priests is becoming a front-burner Catholic issue.

“We’re closing parishes rather than opening ordination,” Sister Christine Schenk, a founder of the Cleveland-based FutureChurch, told GlobalPost. “The Austrian priests' initiative goes to the heart of governance in the church, involving lay leaders, and the opening of ordination so we have both married and women.”

Boston and Detroit have seen dozens of churches shut and sold over protesting parishioners, as bishops guided restructuring plans. Soup kitchens, services to homeless, food pantries and other threads in the church-run social safety net dissolve when parishes disappear. The economic forces behind the closures vary.

In Boston, clergy abuse settlements took a huge toll. Detroit, a moribund city since white flight to suburbs after the race riots of the 1960s, is an archdiocese saddled with a heavy white elephant. Cardinal Adam Maida built a cultural center named for John Paul II in Washington, DC, but failed to generate support of other dioceses. The center was recently sold at a huge loss. In both Detroit and in Boston, closed churches were sold to stanch operating deficits.

“The church is built on the congregation,” Father Schüller told the New York Times in 2011. “You can’t reduce the churchgoer to a consumer, receiving a service.”

The Vatican’s latest response to the Austrian priests’ initiative came when Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig, prefect of the powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome, said that remarried divorcees can never justify receiving communion at mass because marriage is “a divine norm...not at the church’s disposal to alter.”

But Schüller’s group has growing popularity, as one outgrowth of a grassroots protest against the Vatican sparked in 1995 when Cardinal Hans Hermann Groër, the archbishop of Vienna, resigned amid accusations that he sexually abused youths in a Benedictine monastery years earlier. Groër denied the accusations; Austrian bishops rallied around him, only to change their mind as a chorus of victims emerged. Schönborn eventually spoke out against Groër, but failed to persuade Pope John Paul II to publicly acknowledge Groër’s wrongdoing. In 1998, when John Paul visited Austria, maintaining his silence on Groër, 500,000 Austrian Catholics had joined the We Are Church movement.

“They want qualified laity to be able to give sermons and believe that churches should have a stronger local presence, rather than relying on sermons from traveling ‘celebrity’ priests,” the German newsweekly Der Spiegel reported last year of Schüller’s group. “The movement has its roots in Austria, where it counts more than 400 priests and deacons as members. But it is gaining ground across Europe with sympathetic clergy in France, Ireland and other countries expressing support.”

“The average age of the US priest is 63,” said Sister Schenk. “In 1970 it was 45. We know in next ten years a cataclycsm will happen because of priest availability without a fundamental change.”


http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/belief/church-infrastructure-shrinks-rebellious-austrian-priest-tour-us

When you read this than you understand why they have to make it, or is a catholic priest a bad priest because he has a wife at home, why they shouldnot be allowed to be married.



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Hmm. Hmm i tire for this pope ooo

Konji is winning the war. These can't hold body any longer.Rev Sisters get ready for antenatal

Screwface: Sometimes too many changes to a cause can become detrimental. There's this thing I've always loved about the Catholic...before. Despite the advent and the changes in the world (espeically in Christian dome) over time, they've managed to maintain and preserve their age long traditions. Now those old traditions that I feel have helped the Church in maintaining some sanity gets chopped up daily.
First I heard the Pope registered on Twitter. Then the meeting with footballers. His trending Twitter Photos. The Pope this. The Pope that. The Pope welcomed her Majesty, bowing to her in greetings. Something previously never heard of before. Cool.
Now Priests are to be married? What then is the Catholic church about?

Am not against any of these. Not at all. Whatever the Church has to do to tally, make peace, make friends, change the world's mindset about it's activity and win new convert is a welcomed development, innit?
I still feel the Catholic church should tread carefully sha. We have too many Penticostal churches and their doctrines to contend with. Am not sure the Christian dome can accomodate another Pentecostal church as big as the Catholics.

SANITY CHOPPED UP;where did u get dat?sanity wen sum catholic priests and sisters are busy commiting fornication n all other forms of atrocities?some of dem evn have offsprings .

the problem is all over the world that we didnot have boys who want to be priest because they have fear that they couldnot live without a woman.

The catholic church start that a priest cannot marry about 900 years ago, but i know history is not something what you where teached in nigeria, we learn this in the school, we we have religion.

We where teached religion in the primary school and we have religion in the school until we leave the secondary school.

Konji wan kil them.let them marry those that can't stay

Mazi_Omenuko: The old reverend fathers that died without getting married would be turning in their graves right now.

yes! change is the only thing that changes change