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To: sanormal

How sad and shallow. As the interview with Bishop Pell indicated, there are men who are ready to serve and would cost the Church nothing financially

As to Divorce, older men who have been married and have raised their children have nothing of "risk" as indicated in your shallow response.

Look at the current challenge of celibates who may have never truly had the celibate call.

I can imagine a Roman Catholic Bishop very grateful for a mature, married man who loves the Lord and the Church and is willing to serve as a priest

WAKE UP


4 posted on 01/20/2006 6:14:52 PM PST by tcg (TCG)
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To: tcg

I think the best answer to this was as cardinal Pell said: the priest is to image Christ, and Jesus did not marry.

An unmarried man can give completely of himself for his flock and as St Paul says the married man will have a divided mind. Still, it is admitted the the discipline could change, but ultimately it could cause worse problems than it would solve.


5 posted on 01/20/2006 8:34:48 PM PST by Piers-the-Ploughman
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To: tcg

If allowing the ordination of married men is the panacea that so many claim it is then why do the Eastern Rites as well as the Orthodox Church have a clerical shortage too. Wake up indeed.


9 posted on 01/21/2006 8:23:20 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: tcg
WAKE UP

You're arrogant, rude, and obnoxious. ACCEPT IT, that others may not agree with your opinion. And then you'll have woken up.
11 posted on 01/21/2006 12:39:20 PM PST by Conservative til I die
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