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To: gcruse; ninenot
GC: Isn't it a good thing that the Roman Catholic Church drafts no one? That way you may continue to be a chronic malcontent and complainer OUTSIDE of the Church which you clearly fail to comprehend and we Catholics can recognize your irrelevancy. If you are not Catholic, why on earth do you care how we govern our own Church and whatever makes you think it is is any of your business?

Your first two paragraphs make no sense whatsoever. If the nuns are cloistered, they are not leaving cloister in any event except, for medical treatments or severe family emergencies. They would not be galavanting around the countryside even to see the pope any more than they would be leving cloister to take in a basketball game.

If, as is apparently the case, you imagine yorself Christian as suggested by the reformationist tone of your third paragraph, you are an embarassment to the genuine reformed Christians and you ought to take your ignorant revulsion for the freely chosen celibacy of Catholic priests and nuns to St. Paul or directly to God, the real author of Paul's epistles.

After you are gone, the RCC will still flourish and you will be forgotten soon enough. At least the first part of that is a guarantee on the Highest Authority. The second part is the logical corollary. Meanwhile, MYOB.

13 posted on 11/08/2003 7:42:20 AM PST by BlackElk (The termitehood that is modernism is NOT Catholicism and neither is pseudo-"tradition")
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To: BlackElk
Come to think of it, Jesus was supposed to have been fully human. Willingly giving up procreation for life...is that living fully human?
15 posted on 11/08/2003 7:44:52 AM PST by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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To: BlackElk
If you are not Catholic, why on earth do you care how we govern our own Church and whatever makes you think it is is any of your business?
Because our entire society -- not just the Catholic church -- is hurt when someone is molested by pedophile priests who would not have been in office were it not for the fact that the Roman Catholic church continues to preserve a decidedly non-biblical man-made practice that was not practiced by the early Church. Jesus told the religious leaders of his time that they should not place burdens upon men that they couldn't carry.

I have a LOT of good things to say about the Roman Catholic church, so don't call me a Catholic-basher or anything like that. However, when a practice is wrong, you have to throw it out, just like the Catholic church finally quit the practice of selling indulgences, though its reluctance in doing so created a schism in the process.

Want another schism? Then keep on perpetuating the man-made doctrine of priestly celibacy which is nothing more than a Gnostic heresy continued into the 21st century.

"The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They 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."  1 Timothy 4:1-3

"Don't we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Peter?"  1 Corinthians 9:5
 


56 posted on 11/08/2003 9:37:09 AM PST by DallasMike
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