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To: Steelfish

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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To: MSU

It is also the practice in the Eastern Catholic Churchs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_celibacy_%28Catholic_Church%29#Eastern_Catholic_Churches


5 posted on 05/11/2012 11:17:39 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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