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NASB | Luke 1:5 ¶ In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 1:5 ¶ In the days of Herod [the Great], king of Judea, there was a certain priest whose name was Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was a descendant of Aaron [the first high priest of Israel], and her name was Elizabeth. |
Bible Question: I was unaware that there are married Catholic priests. How can this be? |
Bible Answer: pgs, Celebacy is a discipline of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church. That is the majority of Catholics: Western Europe and the rest of the Western Hemisphere and others areas of the world evangelized by Western or Latin Rite Catholics. Celebacy is a discipline not a doctrine. Disciplines are practices than may change. There are also at least 22 Eastern Rite Churches in union with Rome under the pope. They have their own ancient rites and their own Canon (church)laws. They exist mostly in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and India. Their priests may marry before ordination but not after, just as in the Greek Orthodox Church. But there are exception even in the Latin or Western Rite. For example there are a number of priests here in the U.S. who were clerymen converted from Protestant communions that have been ordained to the Catholic priesthood. They make the vow that if their wife dies they will not remarry but remain celebate. Emmaus |