[Petronski]

Why? Any parish that has a married deacon provides fertile ground for most Catholics to realize that it's not that much further to envision a married priest.

Camel's head in the tent, eh?

Pick and erode, pick and erode. Just the way Hillary wants to pull America into evermore-pure socialism, so to do you AmChurch lefties want to water down the Liturgy until it is unrecognizable.

So sad, by the way, about your desperate predictions (hopes) that Ratzinger would never become Pope. One more conservative the AmChurchies will have to outlive.

[sinkspur]

Pick and erode, pick and erode. Just the way Hillary wants to pull America into evermore-pure socialism, so to do you AmChurch lefties want to water down the Liturgy until it is unrecognizable.

This is a strange statement. Permanent deacons who could be married were re-instituted by Vatican II, and given final approval by Pope Paul VI. There are over 15,000 in the United States.

How a Vatican-sanctioned reinstitution of a very ancient office amounts to "watering down the Liturgy" makes no sense to me.

So sad, by the way, about your desperate predictions (hopes) that Ratzinger would never become Pope. One more conservative the AmChurchies will have to outlive.

Ratzinger is proving to be a very good Pope. Unlike John Paul II, at least Benedict XVI allows bishops to freely discuss issues in the Church. He will likely yield some surprises for everybody.