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To: NYer
Doesn't this simply mean that current Anglican priests who are already married will be allowed to remain married by special dispensation (bishops can qualify only if they are demoted to priests), but future ones, wishing to become priests in the Anglican Rite will have to be celibate?

Doesn't this fly in the face of the Eastern Churches in communion with Rome whose clergy (bishops excluded) have the option to marry prior to receiving Holy Orders? or are the Anglicans being treated as "Latins" rather than as a separate (autonomous) Rite?

13 posted on 10/29/2009 12:58:24 PM PDT by kosta50 (Don't look up, the truth is all around you)
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To: kosta50
Dear kosta50,

The personal ordinariates will be structures within the Latin Church.

I wonder whether one day they might become a separate sui juris Church, but that day isn't this day.


sitetest

14 posted on 10/29/2009 2:01:33 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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