Cardinal says Priests will marry

The Scotsman ^ | 5/26/2005

[cyborg]

heh! What is it with people? Why can't they just form their own branch like the hootnanny churches do? It's not as if the Vatican is going to send the Swiss Army after them.

[Torie]

It will be interesting to see if B-16 slaps this down.

[Petronski]

It's about ambition and power. It's about saying "my ambition is more important than your rules, and my power will change your rules, and I will be in charge." It's about marking territory.

It's no different than a feral cat spraying its territory. "This institution will serve ME. This is MY turf." Not one bit of difference.

[cyborg]

I've discovered what you've been referring to all along...
http://www.angelfire.com/pa3/OldWorldBasic/AmChurch1.htm

[sinkspur]

The Anglican Dispensation along with the married permanent diaconate was the beginning of the end of mandatory celibacy in the Latin Rite.

Remember that article earlier tonight, on the reunion of the Anglicans, Orthodox and Catholics?

That will hasten it even more.

[CasearianDaoist]

Could you point me to the article you are talking about?

[Petronski]

There exists a splinter group called ‘Catholics for a Free Choice’, funded in part by Hugh Hefner of Playboy (that great promoter of chastity and respect for women), who are good for a media sound bite to stab the Church.

Precisely. CFC is all about Frances Kissling saying "This Church will bow to MY gospel, the book of Frances." She's marking her territory by rhetorically pissing all over the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

And why? So she and her ilk can feel GOOD about infanticide.

[Torie]

It is all guess work, but I have this gut instinct that B-16 in his presumably relatively short term, has at least one big surprise to offer up. I don't think this practical intellectual has a do nothing but further calcify and ossify mind set. We shall see.

[Torie]

Here.

[Siobhan]

Keith O'Brainless is a toad who should never have been made Cardinal. Archbishop Mario Conti should have been made Scotland's Cardinal Archbishop of Glasgow, and there are many who are convinced that the Superforce of evil switched papers at the Vatican at the last minute and gave the world the Amazing Scottish Mahony.

[Petronski]

You had my comment in #2 pulled. How quaint.



All I did was point out how this article is your big dream come true! I used a different word that better captures your sense of excitement, and the accuracy of it really made you nervous.

[Romulus]

You can't just paper over things like this. There's something desperately wrong about a Vatican that would hand a red hat to this man.

[Talking_Mouse]

bookmark

[jobim]

Diogenes, as is his custom, nails the matter:

Not only has O'Brien failed to present and explain celibacy in its "biblical, theological and spiritual richness," [Pastores Dabo Vobis] he almost certainly doesn't see this richness himself, otherwise he couldn't have so casually predicted its obsolescence. Not a word about chastity as a gift offered to God in imitation of Christ: the married priest, like the cordless microphone, is an idea whose time has come. Whence the message sent to the faithful celibate dragging his 50 years of priesthood toward retirement is, "You lose, old boy! Enjoy your stamp collection." http://www.cwnews.com/offtherecord/offtherecord.cfm

[Petronski]

Not a word about chastity as a gift offered to God in imitation of Christ: the married priest, like the cordless microphone, is an idea whose time has come.

[jobim]

And through this cordless microphone, our own inimitable Deacon sings... what else? One Note Samba