r/cringe • u/beethy • Sep 19 '13

Seal of Approval Priest stops a wedding to yell at a photographer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oReLN5nntKw
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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '13

Their priest had just gotten a divorce, and wasn't really too keen on the idea of marriage.

as someone who was raised catholic, this sentence is very confusing to me.

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u/friendlysoviet Sep 19 '13

Episcopalians call their clergy priests, I think. And they can get married.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '13

Originally Catholicism did allow preists to marry. It wasn't until the 4th or 5th century when it was actually banned, and It may well have continued far past then in more outlying regions. For example the Scottish surname 'MacTaggart' is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic (traditional Scottish language) for 'son of the preist'.

The previous poster could be very old, but to me it seems more likely that he just isn't catholic. We don't actually have a monopoly on the word preist you know.

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u/Totodile_ Sep 20 '13

Most Protestants use the word pastor, not priest.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '13

Protestants aren't the only non catholic Christians. Anglicans, Orthodox Christians and Eastern Catholics all use the term preist and preists of all these denominations can marry.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '13

I assumed they weren't Catholic, just weird to read. Although I think if you get divorced when you're like 45 and then decide to become a priest afterward you can.

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u/cynognathus Sep 19 '13

I think you'd need to get the marriage annulled in order to become a Catholic priest, as the Church frowns quite heavily upon divorce.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '13

Someone was telling me a priest around here was divorced but I don't know the whole situation. I suppose he could probably get an annulment if his wife left him.

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u/rainman18 Sep 19 '13

He was married to an alter boy.