To: SMEDLEYBUTLER; Destro
Can you help this man?
To: saradippity
It is easy. Ask any Catholic scholar - did the Council of Nicea allow married clergy (Pope voted yes on it)? Yes. End of story.
161 posted on
10/14/2003 1:06:08 PM PDT by
Destro
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To: saradippity
It is easy. Ask any Catholic scholar - did the Council of Nicea allow married clergy (Pope voted yes on it)? Yes. End of story.
PS: I find it funny that Catholics trot out the Bible and get all Protestant Sola Scriptura like on this subject and in this case ignore tradition the ecumenical council rulings. Words alone can be twisted around and made to mean many things. That is why the Church fathers rejected Sola Scriptura and created the Ecumenical Councils to debate create the canons of the Church. Married Clergy was thus confirmed as acceptable up to a point by the Apostolic successors.
162 posted on
10/14/2003 1:09:13 PM PDT by
Destro
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