Author Topic: Married priests: what are expected to pay them ? (Read 1367 times)

crossbro · « **on:** May 30, 2014, 12:57:35 AM »

If we start having married priests then I think the priest should have to get an outside job to support his wife and kids.

He can also pay tuition for his kids at Catholic school like anyone else.

I also think that it should be listed in the bulletin when his wife is going to sing for everyone during which Mass so I can decide to stay home.

poche · « **Reply #1 on:** May 30, 2014, 02:00:00 AM »

Quote from: crossbro

If we start having married priests then I think the priest should have to get an outside job to support his wife and kids.

He can also pay tuition for his kids at Catholic school like anyone else.

I also think that it should be listed in the bulletin when his wife is going to sing for everyone during which Mass so I can decide to stay home.

In his constitution, Anglicanorum Coetibus Pope Benedict laid the grounds for married priests to take on appropriate employment for just that reason.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/apost_constitutions/docuмents/hf_ben-xvi_apc_20091104_anglicanorum-coetibus_en.html

If his wife is going to sing and you don't want to hear it you don't have to go to his masses but you still have the obligation to assist at Catholic mass on Sunday.

Ladislaus · « **Reply #2 on:** May 30, 2014, 05:56:05 AM »

Currently in the Eastern Rite most parishes support the priest and his entire family.

Ladislaus · « **Reply #3 on:** May 30, 2014, 05:57:43 AM »

Quote from: poche

In his constitution, Anglicanorum Coetibus Pope Benedict laid the grounds for married priests to take on appropriate employment for just that reason.

Evidently the Novus Ordo went broke from having to pay out all the pedophile lawsuits.

Pete Vere · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2014, 06:09:47 AM »

Quote from: Ladislaus

Currently in the Eastern Rite most parishes support the priest and his entire family.

Not really. I have a number of friends who are married Eastern Catholic priests. Many of them have small parishes and other jobs on the side. Often these jobs are related - hospital chaplain, high-school religion teacher, national guard chaplain, etc - but I have heard of priests working as night janitors, stocking shelfs at grocery stores and laying tile in order to properly support their families.

Pete Vere · « **Reply #5 on:** May 30, 2014, 06:17:31 AM »

Quote from: Hermenegild

Quote from: Ladislaus
Currently in the Eastern Rite most parishes support the priest and his entire family.

Do you know of any sedevacantist and/or anti-Vatican II type Eastern Rite priests?

There is the Society of St Josaphat. However, they are not really Eastern in that they have been highly Latinized.

The bulk of traditional Eastern Catholic priests embrace Vatican II because many of the reforms complained about by Latin traditionalists were actually proposed not by liberals at the Council, but by Eastern traditionalists at the Council following the lead of Melkite Patriarch Maximos. The irony being that Vatican II had the opposite effect in the East that it did in the West, in that it permitted Eastern Catholics to restore their Tradition.

Having said that, most Eastern Catholics who come to reject Vatican II and the post-conciliar popes will find their way over to fundamentalist streams of Eastern Orthodoxy. In fact, one of the most thorough and passionate essays I have ever read promoting sedevacantism was written by a group of monks from Mount Athos.

Pete Vere · « **Reply #6 on:** May 30, 2014, 06:20:50 AM »

P.S. For anyone looking for an Eastern Catholic traditionalist understanding of Vatican II, I highly recommend the book the Melkite Church at the Council. The book is available completely online at the following URL:

https://melkite.org/faith/faith-worship/introduction

Ladislaus · « **Reply #7 on:** May 30, 2014, 08:16:20 AM »

Quote from: Hermenegild

Quote from: Ladislaus
Currently in the Eastern Rite most parishes support the priest and his entire family.

Do you know of any sedevacantist and/or anti-Vatican II type Eastern Rite priests?

I know quite a few Eastern Rite priests, including two who are married. I do not know any of the sedevacantist Eastern Rite priests. I only know of that Ukrainian Catholic group who are sedevacantist.