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Priests in the eastern church are allowed to marry and guess what, the eastern church (sometimes called orthodox) doesn’t have this problem.


23 posted on 09/02/2018 10:44:32 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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...is this where marriage is defined as a union between one man and one woman? How will that work in the US with its newly found, 200+ year dormant constitutional right regarding marriage?


37 posted on 09/02/2018 11:00:12 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot (Evolution is the long term solution to Global Warming. So let's party while we can!)
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Even the RC in Europe does not have the problem on the scale of the US and US trained clergy where the lavender mafia controlled the seminaries in many cases. The problem is not vows of celibacy but homosexual groups allowed to flourish coming from liberal US since the 50s.

I would hazard to guess that Vatican gays were fostered by US trained priests and bishops.


44 posted on 09/02/2018 11:07:30 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: reg45
Priests in the eastern church are allowed to marry and guess what, the eastern church (sometimes called orthodox) doesn’t have this problem.

I think you've got this backwards. Married men can be ordained to the priesthood, but single men, once ordained to the priesthood, cannot marry. There are some instances in the western Church where married men have been ordained, but they are typically men who were already married and had served as ministers in protestant churches.

64 posted on 09/02/2018 11:31:27 AM PDT by trad_anglican
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