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To: thefactor
The idea is that holy orders are permanent and irrevocable:

"Tu es sacerdos in aeternum, secundum ordinem Melchisedech" -- "Thou art a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek" (Ps. 109.4 = 110.4 KJV).

The most that can be done to a man who has been properly ordained a priest is to strip him of the right to exercise priestly functions. That was done to at least one of the Boston area pedophiles.

107 posted on 09/19/2005 7:06:59 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

even if he became a priest under false pretenses? interesting.


111 posted on 09/19/2005 7:21:16 PM PDT by thefactor
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