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Hungarian Bishop Calls For Married Priests

Bishop Miklós Beer, 74, of Vác, Hungary, will be asking Pope Francis to end priestly celibacy, he told szemlelek.blog.hu. Beer calls for married priests because of an alleged shortage of priests.

Beer's diocese has 220 parishes of which ten are without a stable priest. Beer wants to ordain married men “who lead a creditable family life”.

In April, radical Cardinal Walter Kasper said to katholisch.de that Pope Francis wanted bishops' conferences to submit to him requests for ordaining married men. Kasper indicated that Francis would be willing to abolish priestly celibacy.

Picture: Miklós Beer, © Thaler Tamas, CC BY-SA, #newsVbhjsionvx
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GTVisrockin
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What is wrong with these clowns, do they not know their faith, do they not know Priests are already married to the church. The bride of Christ.. No obviously they don't, therefore they are not priests they are bums. Jesus said you can not serve two masters.
GJA Taylor
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Lord Jesus, please have mercy and send us real men of faith as bishops.
mccallansteve
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Way to go , bishop. No need for consecrated virgins in the Church who devote themselves entirely to God. That would be asking the impossible, right?
charisma
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BrTomFordeOFMCap thanks for correcting, you are right.
BrTomFordeOFMCap
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charisma I think you have phrased yourself poorly. I think you wished to say that Bishop Beer (oh how the English speaking media would love that name) wants to ordain married men rather than "to add ordained men (to be able to provide new priests for the parishes) to the existing (unmarried) priests". But you are right that ordaining married men would undermine the value of celibacy. Even the practice …More
charisma I think you have phrased yourself poorly. I think you wished to say that Bishop Beer (oh how the English speaking media would love that name) wants to ordain married men rather than "to add ordained men (to be able to provide new priests for the parishes) to the existing (unmarried) priests". But you are right that ordaining married men would undermine the value of celibacy. Even the practice of ordaining married men in the Christian East is not of apostolic origin. The original discipline required married men to abstain from sexual relations with their wives after ordination (see 1 Tim 3 and read it very carefully!). This has been amply demonstrated from research (see the Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy by Fr C. Cochini SJ).
charisma
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I'm afraid this article is more than misleading and confusing.
Bp. Beer does not want to end priestly celibacy BUT to add ordained men (to be able to provide new priests for the parishes) to the existing (unmarried) priests.
This is a big difference. Nevertheless it is a pity this will further destroy the status of celibacy as a value provided only for Jesus Christ.
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