I have read many jokes about unmarried Catholic priests (Father) and nuns. I'm sure those jokes are written by Protestant Christians. But I never found any joke about Protestant Christian that written by Catholic.
I don't understand, why they insult another Christian ?.
I don't understand either. I have the utmost respect for the work of the Catholic priest at our local parish. The 8 protestant clergy in our community just had a party for him as he was preparing to move to a new assignment and we are all going to miss him.
I also don't understand why people of any faith would insult another, but you see it all the time. Note below:
Well this doesn't make sense to me, how can they focus on faith more if they are unmarried? Think about it a MAN with no partner for the rest of his life I can only think of one thing his mind would be focused on more than his faith. I doubt we'd ever hear about gay priests molesting little boys if they'd been allowed to get married.
Just another place where christianity fails again
Unmarried men can focus on faith better? I wonder what the Prophets of the Old Testament were thinking when they got married!
It needs to be remembered that it has not always been the case that Catholic priests were not allowed to marry. This was something that developed over time during the middle ages. And when it did, it had as much to do with inheritance issues as much as anything spiritual in nature.
Be that as it may, there actually are a couple of good reasons for it. The first is Paul's recommendation that it would be better for people not to marry so that they could focus on working for God, but that if they couldn't avoid lusting after women, then they should go ahead and get married so as not to burn with lust.
But it seems that while Paul never married that Peter did have a wife. I find it impossible to say about any of the rest of the apostles.
Another reason not to marry is that if one is married, then one has an obligation to tend to the needs of one's spouse. Given that a church can pull one in many different directions on its own, having a spouse just adds one more direction in which one is pulled. There is not a married pastor alive who at one time or another hasn't realized that sometimes they just have to say No to the needs of the church in order to serve one's family. That, I believe, is as it should be, but it does mean that sometimes the church gets second best. And as servants of God, that doesn't always sit right. The unmarried pastor, be he Catholic priest or a protestant pastor who just happens to have never married, does not have this issue to deal with. Of course, he also doesn't have someone at home to whom he can unload his burdens. It cuts both ways. And most people in those roles would admit to finding positives and negatives in both scenarios.
As far as the issue of homosexuality or pedaphilia. While it makes big news when it involves a priest, I don't believe that statistics bear out that the incidence is any higher among Catholic clergy than any other group in our society. Indeed the groups with higher than average levels of homosexuality suprising seems to be professional football players. And pedophilia is a major concern in today's school systems. So, the privilege of marriage doesn't seem to be a prevention to those with these prediciltions.
The truth is most priests go about their business never making any news doing just what they understand Christ has called them to do, and they do so without any of the sexual dispositions that have been suggested here.