Posted on 04/04/2005 8:00:34 AM PDT by SmithL
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I do as well. It's been twenty-six years since the Church has undergone this process, and it's never been more important than it is today.
I seem to remember something about land grants to married versus non-married men back in feudal Europe. If I am not way off base, can anyone expand on this?
Especially when they're talking over a liturgical service. I'd rather go to EWTN and participate spiritually than sit back and watch, like Chauncy Gardner.
I USED to have the tv timer automatically turn the tv on to F & F in the am. It USED to be a pleasant way to get the day going.
She went away for a week and it was wonderful, but then she ruined it all by comming back. She is becoming Gretta in the morning.
I like EWTN's coverage, they translate into English where appropriate, and for the most part, they let events unfold without intervention.
I saw that too. I saw Geraldo interviewing her and two orthodox priests. I thought I was dreaming. It's so nice to see so many sane clergy on the telly 8-)
Hopefully this has nothing to do with where we are going. Liberals want the Church to follow the whims of the general populace, .......in which case it will become salt that has lost it's savor....good for nothing except to be thrown out.
A church (or churches) that take opinion polls seriously have lost their way.
Why do you think that the Catholic Church in the US is declining?
I wouldn't say that.
There are hierarchies of dogma in the Catholic Church, and the "teaching" on women's ordination is at the bottom of the stack.
While women cannot be ordained, those who favor ordination of women as some part of the solution to the shortage of priests are still part of the Catholic Church.
Knotts, women's ordination is not on a par with the Trinity or abortion. Let's not get carried away here.
How many are "new guys"?
Now that is an interesting split, given that many protestants are very pleased with JP II's papacy. The difference probablt comes from the hard-core evangelists for sin which seem to be so numerous. They probably hate him.
"The Orthodox are not Eastern-Rite Catholics. They are not Catholics at all."
says who?
you? LOL
I suggest you document your claim because everything I've read and learned says different.
JPII's admiration of the lifework of St. Faustina and Mother Teresa are enough for this non-Catholic as to how the Catholic Church has embraced the importance of women.
Respectfully, I would see the Catholic Church adopt a "priests can be married" policy similar to the Orthodox Church. This is where a man who IS already married can take the final vows for priesthood. (if he becomese widowed he can not be remarried)
They would do this before any more radical moves for more priests. This is just an opinion and worth only as a speculation.
Same theory behind the electoral college AND representative republic
It would...I doubt if he would get picked, but it would be an amazing sight...
oh i have no doubt they will haul out some clergy that will outrage us given the amount of coverage there will be for the next few weeks!
Oh absolutely agree. If our elections were determined by media polls, this country would be in the tight grips of Liberalism, where they were free to indoctrinate every single one of us into their Socialist Utopian dream.
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