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To: dangus

No, I know that priests cannot marry. I just thought that the Catholic Church allowed some men who were already married, perhaps, who felt a desire towards the ministry, to become a “pastor” of a congregation...to tend to the flock, to preach sermons...to do everything but administer the eucharist.

I thought I knew someone who knew someone who had done this. I could be very wrong.

At any rate, I missed the fact that they called this guy “Father” in this article. My bad.


8 posted on 04/12/2008 12:35:09 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (As government expands, liberty contracts. – Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Perhaps you are thinking of a deacon?


17 posted on 04/12/2008 2:01:08 PM PDT by informavoracious (God BLESS America)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

You are sorta right, but they aren’t called “pastors.” When a parish has no priest or religious to serve as its pastor, the highest-ranking person in the parish is called a “parochial administrator,” but by “highest-ranking,” I mean purely in an administrative role, not a spiritual role. Even if the parochial administrator happens to be an ordained deacon, he is still not called a pastor.


23 posted on 04/12/2008 2:52:39 PM PDT by dangus
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