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Q. Why
can’t priests marry?
The celibacy of priests is a Church law, and the Church has every right
to specify the conditions according to which she will accept but candidates for
the priesthood. No man is forced to
become a priest ... he voluntarily decides to
do so after many years of prayerful preparation ...
marriage itself is a holy institution but the person who is unmarried
can give himself more completely to the service of God and his fellow
Christians (see 1
Cor. 7,32) ... Our Lord promised a
special blessing to those who would leave all things, including wife and
family, for his sake (Luke 18,29).