Source: http://www.thechristianreview.com/an-argument-in-favor-of-more-married-priests-in-the-catholic-church/
Accessed: 9/14/19
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When a married man is ordained as a priest, his priesthood elevates the domestic church to a more complete expression of the love of and for Jesus Christ.
The principal reason the Church needs a married priesthood is to define, defend, and strengthen marriage and family within and outside the Church. Until the reinstitution of the diaconate for married men, the Catholic Church overall lacked men who serve as a sign that there are those within the tripartite priesthood who have given themselves fully to Jesus Christ and his Church and to marriage and family life.
In his writings on the diaconate, Pope St. John Paul II speaks of the witness deacons bring to the workforce as married men and how the married deacon and his wife become icons of the sacrificial and sacramental love of husband and wife in the world. The married deacon who becomes a priest, along with his family, can become a greater expression of this sacrificial and sacramental love by virtue of the grace of his priesthood.
Just as the Church needs married priests, married men need to become priests if called to this state to live more fully their vocation and to express more fully their sacrificial love for Christ and for wife and family.
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