Are men in the seminary, training to become priests, required to be celibate?
I know priests aren’t supposed to have sex, but what about when they are still in the seminary, en route to the priesthood? I went home with a guy the other night, and when I left, I found that I was actually leaving a seminary. After consulting someone who knows him, I found that he is becoming a priest. I got very confused about what I had just done after hearing that, for sure. Does anyone know what the rules governing pre-priesthood are?
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Excerpt: “Seminarians must be capable of celibate life, Pope says (Subscribe to RSS Feed)
Vatican, Feb. 1, 2005 (CWNews.com) – Candidates for the priesthood must be psychologically capable of living a celibate life, Pope John Paul II (bio – news) has reminded seminary leaders.”
@Marina: Just because they are capable doesn’t mean they are necessarily virgins, or does it?
Sorry, I only included part of the article. You need to read the whole thing. They are required to be celibate while in seminary. I do not believe they must be virgins. This guy, though, broke a vow if you two did the deed.
lol, and you did it IN the seminary!
im sure this guy knows the consequences of his actions, so i wouldnt worry about it….. if he was willing to break a vow it was probably worth it. WAY TO GO TITS!!
@all: This is forever going to be my go-to party story.
Virginity is not a requirement of the priesthood. I remember a couple years back reading about a man entering the priesthood shortly after his wife had died. I believe his son may have also been a priest but I’m uncertain of that.
I can’t believe you sullied a man of God!
Bad, Tits. Bad.
@TitsMcGhee- Hope you weren’t planning on becoming a nun.
@augustlan: It’s definitely a sexual conquest that not many people can say they’ve accomplished. But yeah, there was definitely a good deal of liquor on my part, and, like I said, I wasn’t aware of it until all was said and done. The large number of Bibles and crucifixes around the room should’ve tipped me off, I guess, but I wasn’t paying a lot of attention to all that at the time.
I’m sure he enjoyed it, and is doing his pennance as we type :)
I hope he enjoyed it… I didn’t, really… but that’s another story.
Then you have already done your pennance!
*Penance
I knew that didn’t look right.
“Seminary” sounds like a funny name for a place where you’re not supposed to have sex.
Was the seminary in Manhattan or Brooklyn? If in Brooklyn, was it the one just across the bridge? I knew someone Catholic and gay who lived there for a while. I think those seminarians had a rather novel interpretation of “celebate.” I guess not all seminarians are gay, or, given your experience, perhaps they are, and are trying to see if they could be straight.
@daloon: It was in Harlem…. he definitely wasn’t not interested in women though, haha.
Tits did a larval priest! Oh my gosh!
funny, I never imagined you resembling an altarboy
Have we established that he was actually a priest in training?
I just remembered that I lived with a girl in NYC who had been staying at a convent, but only because it was cheap rent. The last time I saw her, she was doing webcam porn.
So maybe if you want a good time, you have to go trolling around the nunneries and seminaries…
@fireside: I’m pretty sure his room in the seminary wasn’t a front for a webcam porn operation (there were quite a few Bibles that I thought nothing of until I realized where I was…) Considering how attractive he was, I don’t think many people would’ve been too interested in his stuff…
@TitsMcGhee – Yeah, she wasn’t doing webcam porn out of the nunnery. She was “trying to get her shit together”
Her stuff wasn’t all that either, so I was pretty surprised to find her on a webcam site a few years later.
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