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To: FormerACLUmember; GipperGal
I have met married Catholic Priests who were Lebanese Maronite rite Catholics.

Yes ... the Eastern Churches allow for a married priesthood under very strict and limited conditions. Only recently, our Abouna explained how this "works" in the East but could not succeed in the West. The Maronite Church is founded on monastacism and still places greater emphasis on a celibate priesthood.

8 posted on 04/28/2005 3:25:12 AM PDT by NYer ("Love without truth is blind; Truth without love is empty." - Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: NYer

If I'm correct, there are several dozen married Catholic priests in the US..Former ECUSA ministers, married, who then joined the Catholic church and were ordained..


11 posted on 04/28/2005 6:16:37 AM PDT by ken5050 (The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
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