I Want to be a Husband and Father For Life and a Catholic Priest Forever

About the Book

Long before Jesus Christ instituted the sacrament of holy orders, God the Father commanded Adam and Eve and their descendents to be fertile, increase, and multiply and fill the earth, and this command includes candidates for the priesthood in the Latin Rite. It is the author’s firm conviction that the law of celibacy is a serious violation a priest’s basic rights. Most men and women not only need to love God, but also to love a person of the opposite sex at the conjugal level. It is natural, it is healthy, it is most rewarding, and it is a right the church did not enact and require the vow of celibacy to help priests grow spiritually, but for all of the wrong reasons. Eliminate it NOW.

About the Author

Rev. Dr. Eugene J Weitzel, C.S.V.. a member of the Clerics of St. Viator, received his doctorate (S.T.D.) from the Catholic Univer-sity of America. He also has degrees in education and religious education. He has taught at every level of education, served as a hospital chaplain and a pastor at St. Alexius Chuch in Beards-tsown and St. Fidelis Church in Arenzville in in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. Father has also published two sacra-mentaries for visually handicapped priests. He also edited and contributed to three books on liturgy and moral theology. Fr. Weitzel, hss written tis book, to urge the Catholic Church to cease requiring priest to take a solemn vow of celibacy and allow candidates for the priesthood to marry and raise a family.