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Why not just let priests marry and woman be priests too. Per l'amor di Dio.

The real reason why priests could not marry is because when a catholic priest / nun joins the church ( at least in the past ) not having any family he/she was used to donate his/her personal assets to the church.

Women: well the church rules where written many years ago and the church is very conservative ( this new pope more than most recent popes )

If you can't keep it in your pants DON'T become a priest. The Church has rules ( agree or disagree it's up to you ) but you know going in.

Whoever is without sin ,let him cast the first stone.Did they actually catch him in the act of fornication? If they didn't then they assume and you what happens when you assume?
Maybe if more priests were allowed to enjoy women they wouldn't be molesting young men

Sono totalmente d'accordo con te Danno.

Well ..many years ago in Italy I worked in setting up 'addobbi per matrimoni' ( wedding decorations ? ) - We went around churches and at the time it seemed that my colleagues all knew that often there was a the priest companion and they know who she was. For Italians priest or no priests ( Italian Jews included ) regulations are mostly just suggestions many times anyway. I personally would not find anything wrong if the priest got married as long as he had a good conduct ... Better that than all scandals you see around the catholic church nowadays about priests and young boys.

It was only the WOMEN followers of Christ - Mary His mother, Mary Magdalene, Mary and Martha, Veronica, etc. who stayed with him every minute on his Way to the Cross and throughout His crucifixion, while all of the male disciples not only ran away but denied him, even St. Peter! It was a woman (M. Magdalene) to whom Christ first revealed Himself after he rose from the dead. It is well known that the early church bishops picked and chose which of the many gospels that had been written would be seen by the masses and which would be suppressed. The ones suppressed were the ones written by followers of Christ who said that there were female as well as male disciples! Those disciples were declared to be heresies! Paolo is right - mandatory celibacy in priests is an economic issue, absolutely. Although they have convinced men entering the priesthood that they are forming some kind of holy bond with Christ by choosing celibacy, that it's a gift they are giving Him. There are plenty of other ways to be self-sacrificing and to bond with Christ in the way one conducts his/her life. Celibacy is so unnatural, so against God's creation that the Church's rules have caused I am sure a psychological burden on priests who after all still are men and men are going to have sexual thoughts, at the very least. So when that happens there has to be alot of unnecessary guilt and self-reproach in these priests, like they have failed. Unfortunately, money has been throughout the history of the Catholic Church a prime motivating factor in the rules they make. Money and Control. Jesus was about neither.

Along with other complaints, the activities of the popes between 1458 to 1565, helped encourage the Protestant Revolt.

Pope Sergius III (904–911) was supposedly the father of Pope John XI by Marozia. Bertrand Fauvarque underlines that the
sources backing up this parenthood, notably Liutprand of Cremona in his Antapodosis are dubious, Liutprand being "prone
to exaggeration" while other mentions of this fatherhood appear in satires written by supporters of late Pope Formosus.

Pope John XII (955–963) (deposed by Conclave) was said to have turned the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano into a
brothel and was accused of adultery, fornication, and incest. Ave Maria purissima prega per noi! LOL!

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, again in 1045 and finally 1047–1048) was said to have conducted a very dissolute life during his papacy.

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503) had a notably long affair with Vannozza dei Cattanei before his papacy, by whom he had his famous
illegitimate children Cesare and Lucrezia. A later mistress, Giulia Farnese, was the sister of Alessandro Farnese, who later
became Pope Paul III. He fathered a total of at least seven, and possibly as many as ten illegitimate children.

Sexually active after receiving Holy Orders

Pope Julius II (1503–1513) had at least one illegitimate daughter, Felice della Rovere (born in 1483, twenty years before his
election). Some sources indicate that he had two additional illegitimate daughters, who died in their childhood.

Pope Paul III (1534–1549) held off ordination in order to continue his promiscuous lifestyle, fathering four illegitimate
children (three sons and one daughter) by his mistress Silvia Ruffini.LOLROTF! He broke his relations with her ca. 1513.
There is no evidence of sexual activity during his papacy.

Pope Pius IV (1559–1565) had three illegitimate children before his election to the papacy. LOLROTF!!!

There's actually more.

Another point: marriage being prohibited to priests is only a function of the past 1000 years or so. Christianity is 2009 years old. Up to that point priests, bishops, popes etc. were married. There is even belief that some of the Apostilles were married men.