How many wives can you have in California?
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How many wives can you have in California?
California law makes it a crime to marry more than one person. The law, however, has not been tested on constitutional grounds. There is an 1878 U.S. Supreme Court decision arising from Utah that held the First Amendment does not prohibit a statute outlawing polygamy.
Can a married man become a Catholic monk?
Can a married man become a Franciscan monk/oblate? – Quora. They cannot become a monk or oblate specifically because those words refer to monastic orders like Benedictines, not to mendicant orders like Franciscans, who become friars, brothers and tertiaries.
Why can priests not marry?
Clerical celibacy is the requirement in certain religions that some or all members of the clergy be unmarried. These religions consider that, outside of marriage, deliberately indulging in sexual thoughts and behavior is sinful; clerical celibacy also requires abstention from these.
Why can’t nuns get married?
Nuns who live like this make a vow of celibacy, which means they vow to abstain from sexual relationships in order that they can devote themselves completely to the Lord. After making such a vow, nuns will not marry.
Does a priest have to be a virgin?
Do priests have to be virgins? There’s a long church history on the question of celibacy and the clergy, some of which you can see in the New Catholic Encyclopedia: bit.ly/bc-celibacy. So no, virginity is apparently not a requirement, but a vow of celibacy is.
Do nuns get pregnant?
“The most likely outcome if they will leave their religious service.” There have been previous instances in the Church of nuns becoming pregnant, but in some cases, this was not after consensual sex.
Can you quit being a priest?
Once it is validly received, nothing can remove it. So when a priest “quits” or is “fired” by his bishop all that really happens is he “loses the clerical state.” That is, the priest loses all the rights and obligations of being a cleric (except chastity celibacy, which is only dispensed by the Pope).
