What are the possible advantages if the priest will be allowed to marry?
Dear Jay, I suppose if you look at it in a human way you may find some material advantages to priests being allowed to marry, at least those who are against celibacy in principle claim so. Even if their predictions, for example, about more vocations were to turn out to be correct (they don’t, if the situation of those churches with a married clergy is any indication), this would still not be the proper approach to the matter, since they would still be missing the essence of priesthood. Celibacy is not a matter of sociology, numbers or human reasoning. It is based on Christ’s example – the very life he lived himself and the way in which he chose to save us, or rather the way his Father chose for him and he followed out of love and obedience, and this was the way of sacrifice and the Cross that lead to Resurrection. Celibacy cannot be understood if you forget that grace is a reality and a power in our lives, or if you forget that Christ told Peter it was impossible for man but possible f
