I have not come to defend the married priests of the Catholic Church, but for us to understand the catholic church, lets historically reflect on the papacy as the head of Catholic Chucrh:

Daniel 7:25
25 He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time.

Now, when we compare with Pauls letter to Timothy, we get something which is a pointer to all these:

1 Tomothy 4:1-4
1The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

Let us again flashback to what the Catholic church has to say over Daniel 7:25
“We Catholics do not accept the Bible as the only rule of faith. Besides the Bible we have the living Church, the authority of the Church, as a rule to guide us. We say, this Church instituted by Christ, to teach and guide men through life, has the right to change the Ceremonial laws of the Old Testament and hence, we accept her change of the Sabbath to Sunday. We frankly say, yes, the Church made this change, made this law, as she made many other laws, for instance, the Friday Abstinence, the unmarried priesthood, the laws concerning mixed marriages, the regulation of Catholic marriages, and a thousand other laws…”
Peter R. Tramer, Editor, The Catholic Extension Magazine, in response to a letter May 22, 1954.

Historically we know very well that even some popes had wives as outlined by none other than a married Catholic priest in the link http://johnshuster.com/thirtynine_popes.htm There was once even a woman pope by the name Pope Joan

All in all let the Bible be the absolude reference guide in matters relating to faith, as it is the sole authority given to us from which even Jesus himself aslways quoted from.

Fred Nyanganga-Otieno

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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:57:40 +0300
From: fred nyanganga
Subject: Catholic Church and The Celibacy of Priests