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Can my son be both a priest and a medical doctor?
« on: November 25, 2012, 09:03:55 AM »
Can my son be both a priest and a medical doctor?

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Re: Can my son be both a priest and a medical doctor?
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2012, 09:04:28 AM »
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While there are priests who are also medical doctors -- I have heard of a Dominican priest who is also a psychiatrist -- those generally are rare exceptions. Ordinarily, the Church prefers that a man who is to be given holy orders devote his whole life to the priesthood because the priesthood is not a career but a calling to configure one's life entirely to Christ and his sacrificial priesthood.

If your son is interested in being a priest, he should investigate the priesthood. If he is interested in being a doctor, he should go to medical school. It should also be said that the job of a doctor is so demanding that a person called to be a doctor may also have a vocation to the single life or to life as a consecrated religious (for a man, a lay brother). The Order of St. Camillus (the Servants of the Sick) is a religious order for men dedicated to the care of the ill. The Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa's order) also has affiliated lay brothers.



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Re: Can my son be both a priest and a medical doctor?
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2012, 09:06:26 AM »
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