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To: Salvation; Coleus; NYer; SoothingDave; cyborg; onyx; fortunecookie; ArrogantBustard; Ramius; ...
Our Church should welcome all the priestly vocations God sends, including those given to women and married men.

Uhhhh, right.

Just go off and start your own damned church and keep your filthy hands off of His.

12 posted on 12/02/2005 9:25:50 PM PST by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: Petronski

'Our Church should welcome all the priestly vocations God sends, including those given to women and married men. '

There was a great quote attributed to a past Pope (I forget at the moment which one it was), when confronted by the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, who insisted that the church in Brazil would be lost forever if the celibacy requirement was not lifted immediately.
The Pontiff replied "If that is all that it would take for our church to fall in Brazil, then let it be lost."

As a layperson who is enthusiastically NOT celibate, I don't understand why groups like Futurechurch (What a name, too... they might as well call themselves "Churcheology") beat the same dead dog over and over again. Celibacy is a very little thing to practice when compared to the great goft of Holy Orders. Why is it that there aren't any groups which espouse ONLY revisiting either the issue of celibacy OR the ordination of women? Practicing Catholics have to be bombarded by this Wish List that reads like instructions from the IRS... the same thing, every year about the same time. Maybe I'll send Futurechurch an invitation to the local Unitarian church... they belong there.


14 posted on 12/02/2005 10:17:36 PM PST by capt.P (If Olive oil comes from olives, just what is in Baby Oil?)
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