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1 posted on 05/11/2012 10:30:22 AM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

One day the College of Cardinals will meet, do a 180 and reverse themselves on the issue of married clergy.

This will happen the day after global net totals in the collection baskets start falling.

You can report me to the Inquisition now.


2 posted on 05/11/2012 10:43:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Why are so few men coming forward for the priesthood?

In the States the radical homo/Leftist seminaries drove away good men.

3 posted on 05/11/2012 10:45:41 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The best diplomat I know is a fully-activated phaser bank. - Montgomery Scott)
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Perhaps a more moderate change might be appropriate: Permitting men who are married to become priests. This is the practice in the Eastern Orthodox churches. Notice particularly that the marriage must come BEFORE the ordination; that is, those who are unmarried at ordination must remain unmarried, and married priests whose wife passes away may not remarry.


4 posted on 05/11/2012 10:46:04 AM PDT by MSU (It is better to live one verse of Scripture than to memorize it all.)
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“We want to know what is Plan B.”

Importing priests from abroad, twit.


7 posted on 05/11/2012 12:27:33 PM PDT by vladimir998
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The Irish missionaries evangelized Biafra, so maybe it’s time for Biafran priests to come back and re evangelize Ireland...


8 posted on 05/11/2012 8:22:31 PM PDT by LadyDoc
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To: Steelfish
IIRC there are married,non-celibate Roman Catholic priests in the United States (and,I assume,other nations) at this very moment.Seems to me that Christ either wants all (or at least many) of His vicars to have the option to be married or *none* of them to have that option.

And no,I'm no progressive heretic.

10 posted on 05/12/2012 7:18:06 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Julia: another casualty of the "War on Poverty")
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