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To: NYer
If he remains celibate and defends the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality, there should be no problem.

From this mornings Post Standard article: In a 1987 interview, Daley said the church's celibacy requirement contributes to the clergy shortage. "If celibacy were optional and if women could be ordained, there would be no priesthood shortage in the Catholic Church. That's my opinion," Daley said at the time.

How does he know he is gay if he is supposedly celibate?

3 posted on 03/30/2004 6:24:02 AM PST by Gerish (Do not be fearful. God is with you.)
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To: Gerish
"If celibacy were optional and if women could be ordained, there would be no priesthood shortage in the Catholic Church. That's my opinion,"

Likewise, if we could ordain goats, there would be no priesthood shortage in the Catholic Church.

8 posted on 03/30/2004 6:39:44 AM PST by B Knotts (Salve!)
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To: Gerish
How does he know he is gay if he is supposedly celibate?

Orientation vs. practice.

12 posted on 03/30/2004 7:37:41 AM PST by Eala (Sacrificing tagline fame for... TRAD ANGLICAN RESOURCE PAGE: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican)
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To: Gerish
Put it this way: I'm chaste and I know I'm heterosexual.
40 posted on 03/31/2004 1:42:33 PM PST by dangus
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