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To: GipperGal
If you do think you can question it, are you aware that you are breaking an oath every time you affirm your loyalty and belief in the "the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church" during the Mass?

Mandatory celibacy for priests is a discipline, not a doctrine. No one is required to believe that priests have to be unmarried at peril of their soul.

12 posted on 05/10/2005 11:19:42 AM PDT by sinkspur (If you want unconditional love with skin, and hair and a warm nose, get a shelter dog.)
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To: sinkspur; St. Johann Tetzel

Celibacy for priests is not mandatory, it's voluntary. Those who seek Holy Orders voluntarily take that promise or take that vow.

Of course, some pathetic souls decide to break their promise or vow, selfishly turning their back on the Church just so they can get married. Normally they're forced out.


22 posted on 05/10/2005 11:35:41 AM PDT by Petronski (Pope Benedict XVI: A German Shepherd on the Throne of Peter)
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To: sinkspur

Communities that preach married priests as the solution or worse women priests will have no priests, except what they import. It's a self-correcting problem. Pope Benedict is more than willing to have a smaller, higher-quality flock.

Priests don't fall from the sky, they come from loyal orthodox praying families. Therefore, unorthodox, disloyal communities will have none.


219 posted on 05/10/2005 5:41:43 PM PDT by WriteOn (in a word, it's the Word.)
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