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To: conservlib
The orthodox priests get married

Orthodox priests never get married. Many married Orthodox men eventually receive ordination, but no one ever gets married after they have become an Orthodox priest.

and they perform a good service to their parishioners.

They have their own problems too. People are always watching to see how much of the congregation's donations the priest's wife is spending on her wardrobe and household, how the priest's kids are behaving, etc. They have their own scandals as well, even married priests, in the same ways as celibate ones.

The orthodox church did not deviate from the teaching of Jesus one inch,

That's an arguable point. Christ had some significant things to say about Peter, for example.

and it has more deeply religious followers than the Catholic church has now.

That is either an ignorant or malicious statement, and unworthy of any serious person.

Hence, celibacy did not do the Roman Catholic church any favor.

For one thing, it greatly enhanced the effectiveness of the Church's mission activity, which may be one reason why five times as many people today call themselves Catholic instead of Orthodox. It may also be a factor as to why no Catholic prelate ever betrayed his entire country's church to the Communists in exchange for a pension.

64 posted on 01/04/2005 8:22:27 PM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: wideawake

"It may also be a factor as to why no Catholic prelate ever betrayed his entire country's church to the Communists in exchange for a pension."

They might not have betrayed it to communists, but all bar one of the English prelates betrayed their Church to Henry VIII for the sake of a pension.

Interestingly, though, St. John Fisher was the only one who did not betray his Church, and, as it happens, he was also the only English bishop who did not have a concubine!


140 posted on 01/05/2005 2:44:24 PM PST by Tantumergo
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