Catechesis: Marriage of Priests

Therefore, those who are unable to lead a single life ought to marry. No human law, no vow, can destroy God’s commandment and ordinance. For these reasons the priests teach that it is lawful for them to marry wives.—AC XXIII:7-9

*Fitting upon the Festival of Sts. Peter and Paul. St. Peter was regarded as the first bishop of Rome, and we know for a certainty from Scripture that he was married and that his wife travelled with him. When a human tradition clashes with the Sacred Scriptures…so much the worse for the human tradition! The Church is bound to what the Word reveals.