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To: dsc
Celibate men can give more to the Church ...

All arguements I've made for maintaining and reinforcing the discipline of celibacy within the Latin Rite Catholic Priesthood. And yet ... the Byzantines et al. seem to do just fine with married parish Priests, and celibate monks and Bishops. And as has been observed on this thread, they've managed to avoid or repel the onslaught of the liturgical lunatics ... unlike us Latins.

The ones I feel sorry for are the Latin Catholics who must endure the likes of Cardinal Mahoney and Archbishop Weakland, and their ilk at the Parish Pastor level.

70 posted on 03/17/2004 6:03:05 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Chief Engineer, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemens' Club)
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To: ArrogantBustard
Agreed. Must be the work of the Holy Spirit and also that the rites are so much smaller. Imagine a one of those liturgical professionals coming in wanting to "fix things"?

On a secular note, how are the married families in those rites supported financially? Is it that the donations are accumulated by the diocese of that particular rite and then dispersed accordingly? Do they have a problem staffing the parishes in undesirable locations (dangerous)? Do the funds from the Roman rite partially sustain the other Catholic rites? I ask because I know some priests in the Orthodox Churches have jobs outside of the priesthood in order to sustain their families.

76 posted on 03/17/2004 6:17:23 PM PST by american colleen
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