Are Priests Really Celibate?
In Latin Church Catholicism and in Some Eastern Catholic Churches, Most Priests Are Celibate Men. .. . in Most Orthodox Traditions and in Some Eastern Catholic...
In Latin Church Catholicism and in some Eastern Catholic Churches, most priests are celibate men. ... In most Orthodox traditions and in some Eastern Catholic Churches men who are already married may be ordained priests, but priests may not marry after ordination.
Are all Catholic priests celibate?
Throughout the Catholic Church, East as well as West, a priest may not marry. In the Eastern Catholic Churches, a married priest is one who married before being ordained. The Catholic Church considers the law of clerical celibacy to be not a doctrine, but a discipline.
Do Catholic priests have to be virgins?
Do priests have to be virgins? There's a long church history on the question of celibacy and the clergy, some of which you can see in the New Catholic Encyclopedia: ... So no, virginity is apparently not a requirement, but a vow of celibacy is.
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