{"id":2679,"date":"2018-05-11T09:25:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2018-05-11T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T18:11:20","slug":"do-priests-have-to-be-virgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/11\/do-priests-have-to-be-virgins\/","title":{"rendered":"Do priests have to be virgins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2677\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2677\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW051118-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2677\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW051118-2-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"Do priests have to be virgins?\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW051118-2-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW051118-2.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do priests have to be virgins?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s a long church history on the question of celibacy and the clergy, some of which you can see in the New Catholic Encyclopedia: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-celibacy\">bit.ly\/bc-celibacy<\/a>. The early Church and Eastern Christianity had\/have married clergy, and the Western Church recognizes them as priests. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-celibacy2\">bit.ly\/bc-celibacy2<\/a>. Saint Augustine, prior to being a priest and then bishop, was apparently sexually active. (Confessions book 3, chapter 1): <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-celibacy3\">bit.ly\/bc-celibacy3<\/a>. So no, virginity is apparently not a requirement, but a vow of celibacy is. The Wall has reached out to other walls on campus for additional comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a long church history on the question of celibacy and the clergy, some of which you can see in the New Catholic Encyclopedia: bit.ly\/bc-celibacy. The early Church and Eastern Christianity had\/have married clergy, and the Western Church recognizes them as priests. bit.ly\/bc-celibacy2. Saint Augustine, prior to being a priest and then bishop, was apparently &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/11\/do-priests-have-to-be-virgins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do priests have to be virgins?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}