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To: Renatus
Martin Luther was a man who made solemn lifetime vows BEFORE GOD to never marry. He then rejected those vows. I could never follow any man who made vows to God and then rejected them. I thank God every day that I have been given the grace to be a Roman Catholic with her sacred Magisterium to guard us in the truth.

Martin Luther made vows of celibacy within a human organization which had declared him eternally dead. Death has always been seen as freeing one from such vows.

More importantly, his Augustinian prior, von Staupitz, had formally released him from his monastic vows...within Staupitz's power, even assuming the legitimacy of the Roman Church.

This was at a time when Cardinals and Popes routinely had multiple concubines...

Luther was a faithful husband and pastor...a model for chaste behaviour, which even his worst enemies couldn't condemn.

60 posted on 10/31/2001 1:55:34 PM PST by AnalogReigns
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To: Renatus; AnalogReigns
Augsburg Confession, Article XXIII: Of the Marriage of Priests

Augsburg Confession, Article XXVII: Of Monastic Vows

69 posted on 10/31/2001 2:28:40 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
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