tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354109.post1909291006501681978..comments2023-09-21T08:03:48.904-04:00Comments on Rentapriest: What happens when priests fall in love and abandon celibacy?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14315936198315018045noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354109.post-23379362794342164072010-09-05T06:20:52.757-04:002010-09-05T06:20:52.757-04:00This is a letter I just sent to Linda who married ...This is a letter I just sent to Linda who married a Catholic priest in 1982. I want to share my thoughts not only to Linda and her husband but to everybody who is not afraid to make a difference!<br /><br />Dear Linda, greetings to you and your husband! I admire what your husband Reverend Father Phil Marcin did. All Catholic priests who claim they are truly or sincerely in love should do the same thing as what he did. He did the right thing, he did not turn his back on you, by doing this he followed God's Rule or Law and not the Rule or Law of Man! I am very happy and glad to know that your husband Reverend Father Phil Marcin still performs baptisms, serves Holy Communion and completes other priestly duties when asked by everyday folks. What happened to you and Phil is God's way of letting us know that God's Rule or Law prevails over Man's Rule or Law! Those who are leading the Catholic Church should review their Law on Celibacy and ask themselves if that Law on Celibacy which they are imposing is God's Law or Man's Law, if it is only Man's law and it is already causing so much pain to women and priests who are truly and sincerely in love including their children and families, then it is high time that Catholic leaders must revise or change that Law on Celibacy and follow God's Law or Rule!!! The leaders of the Catholic Church should be the ones to ease the pain of the people and not to promote pain because promoting pain is NOT the will of God!!! We all know that one of the reasons for priests not being allowed to marry is economical or financial reasons. My comment to this is why put financial reasons above the will of God or above God's Law or Rule? Are the leaders of the Catholic Church not afraid that by imposing their man-made Law they are very much violating God's Will or God's Law. If another reason that the Catholic Church has in imposing priestly celibacy is that the priest will be disturbed in his priestly duties if he has a family of his own, then my comment to this is that a priest will be more efficient and eager in performing his tasks and duties if he is happy! And the wife and children who love the priest would even be very happy to support and help the Catholic Church in every way they can. Like other institutions the Catholic Church can also give its support to the priest, his wife and children and by doing this, the wife and children and their family members would be very grateful and thankful to the Catholic Church because the Catholic Church has NOT ABANDONED them, thus these people would become very supportive to the Catholic Church in every way they can as a sign of gratitude or gratefulness! Thus in the future what we will have is a very strong Catholic Church very unlike of what it is happening to it now, it is slowly weakening because of too many scandals brought about by that Man-made law on Celibacy!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354109.post-61797532091842680672010-09-05T05:24:14.524-04:002010-09-05T05:24:14.524-04:00This is a letter I just sent to Linda who married ...This is a letter I just sent to Linda who married a Catholic priest in 1982. I want to share my thoughts not only to Linda and her husband but to everybody who is not afraid to make a difference!<br /><br />Dear Linda, greetings to you and your husband! I admire what your husband Reverend Father Phil Marcin did. All Catholic priests who claim they are truly or sincerely in love should do the same thing as what he did. He did the right thing, he did not turn his back on you, by doing this he followed God's Rule or Law and not the Rule or Law of Man! I am very happy and glad to know that your husband Reverend Father Phil Marcin still performs baptisms, serves Holy Communion and completes other priestly duties when asked by everyday folks. What happened to you and Phil is God's way of letting us know that God's Rule or Law prevails over Man's Rule or Law! Those who are leading the Catholic Church should review their Law on Celibacy and ask themselves if that Law on Celibacy which they are imposing is God's Law or Man's Law, if it is only Man's law and it is already causing so much pain to women and priests who are truly and sincerely in love including their children and families, then it is high time that Catholic leaders must revise or change that Law on Celibacy and follow God's Law or Rule!!! The leaders of the Catholic Church should be the ones to ease the pain of the people and not to promote pain because promoting pain is NOT the will of God!!! We all know that one of the reasons for priests not being allowed to marry is economical or financial reasons. My comment to this is why put financial reasons above the will of God or above God's Law or Rule? Are the leaders of the Catholic Church not afraid that by imposing their man-made Law they are very much violating God's Will or God's Law. If another reason that the Catholic Church has in imposing priestly celibacy is that the priest will be disturbed in his priestly duties if he has a family of his own, then my comment to this is that a priest will be more efficient and eager in performing his tasks and duties if he is happy! And the wife and children who love the priest would even be very happy to support and help the Catholic Church in every way they can. Like other institutions the Catholic Church can also give its support to the priest, his wife and children and by doing this, the wife and children and their family members would be very grateful and thankful to the Catholic Church because the Catholic Church has NOT ABANDONED them, thus these people would become very supportive to the Catholic Church in every way they can as a sign of gratitude or gratefulness! Thus in the future what we will have is a very strong Catholic Church very unlike of what it is happening to it now, it is slowly weakening because of too many scandals brought about by that Man-made law on Celibacy!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com