Do Catholics have priests

Answer 1

A Priest is to the Kingdom of Heaven what a public servant is to the State. He is there to provide the benefits of the Kingdom of heaven to those authorised to receive them. They still feel that a person needs an intercessor between themselves and God. The protestant faith feels that when Jesus was crucified and died and the curtain in the temple was ripped that we have direct contact with God and do not need an intercessor. But the Catholics and the protestants both see the need for a spiritual leader to teach us and help to explain the word of God to us otherwise we would be stumbling around like so many people do. Too many people are trying to find God on their own and are looking in the wrong places. There are a lot of people out there that take advantage of them by leading them astray.

Answer 2

Catholics have priest 1) because lay people (any ordinary catholic) can not distributed, or concrecrate they Host, or Body and Blood of Christ. Priest also can, through the power of Christ, Priest can forgive sins in confession. Also Priest baptise Catholics ( make they part of the Church) and Marry people, and anoint the sick. And they do much more too!

I hope this helps

Answer: Catholics (serving as Extraordinary Ministers) may distribute the consecrated Host -- Eucharist: body, blood, soul and divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Only a Catholic Priest (including bishop, pope, cardinal, etc) has been given the divine "power" -- through the Sacrament of Holy Orders -- to effect the Transubstantiation of mere bread & wine into the essence of Our Lord. Jesus chooses to remain with us -- infuse Himself to us and in us strengthening us-- in a profound/dramatic way by giving us His LIFE. The Eucharist is a great gift of God.

Answer2: In the New Testament snd during early apostolic times there is no mention of the clergy or laity wrote Professor of theology Cletus Wessels. The Encyclopedia of Christianity states: "There gradually arose a differentiation into clergy as the officeholders and the laity as the rest. Ordinary church members now came to be seen as an unqualified mass. That differentiation became prominent during third century C.E. more than two hundred years after Jesus Christ. God's word tells us that all Christians serve God as ministers and that NONE is above or beneath the other. There was a very positive insistence on the absence of class among esrly Christisns says religion writer Alexandre Faivre. That absence of class harmonize with Jesus' words to his followers: "All you are brothers." - Matthew 23:8. Spiritually older men did, of course serve as overseers which included being shepherds and teachers. (Acts 20:28) However, these men were not paid clerics. For the most part they were ordinary working men, husbands and fathers. They qualified to serve as overseers , not by attending religious seminaries, but by being diligent students of God's word and by cultivating spiritual qualities required by God.

Answer 3

Catholics believe that priests are men who have been called by God to serve Him and dedicate their lives to Him through the priestly ministry.

Answer 4

Yes, they do. Our Blessed Lord appointed the apostles as His first priests and Bishops.