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To: Domestic Church
I would imagine it leaves many wondering if and when the other shoe will fall(when the big cheese in the Congregation of the Clergy ratifies it.)

He's not going to ratify it because it is theologically incorrect to say that a gay celibate cannot be validly ordained.

If you want to keep gays out of the priesthood, then don't ordain them. But you're going to have to wait for the current crop to die off or be laicized because nobody's going to retroactively invalidate a valid ordination.

Plus, if a gay priest is celibate, how would you know he's gay?

102 posted on 04/16/2002 1:30:02 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
That's why I said if and when...I'm not a theologian. As far as the gay celibate issue, I think the religious vocation to that individual, carrying the Cross of that particular disorder, would be the brotherhood, not the priesthood...it comes down to finding the ordo for the individual. I don't think gays belong in the priesthood at all but I don't expect this to really change for at least a century.
105 posted on 04/16/2002 1:52:18 PM PDT by Domestic Church
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