Father Dan Reehil

They follow what Jesus did.

He chose 12 men.

There were priestesses in other pagan religions at that time, so it wasn't off the table.

He could have done that.

His mother is the holiest person that was ever created, who's not divine.

She would have been the best priest if you were going to allow anybody, because she's perfect.

I mean, she had no sin in her.

But he chose, no, these will be these 12.

So that's never going to change.

Can priests be married?

They sure can.

We know Peter had a wife.

He had a mother-in-law, so he had to have a wife.

And we've had married priests for probably four or five centuries in the church.

But after a while, it became an issue for raising families.

How do you raise a family if you're just going to keep picking up people and moving them and they don't own the land?

The church owns the land.

And how do we distribute the property?

And it became a big headache.

And for many other reasons, the church just said, we want the priest to be focused on his flock specifically.