Vatican official to Anglicans: Women bishops would destroy unity

Catholic News Service ^ | June 7, 2006 | Simon Caldwell

[RobbyS]

We had married bishops, but Protestants are not happy to learn that the common practice for them to abstain from sex after they came to office. It has uniformly been the case of no marriage AFTER ordination. True of the Greeks as well as us Latins.

[Cheverus]

No, I worked at the Chancery for five years, the last two under him and must confess after seeing the dirty laundry and having me the man that I don't think too much of him.

For instance, let's just say Haddad was not an isolated instance among the lay employees.

[Claud]

Many of the NT Church leaders were married - including Peter.

Oh, no one denies that one bit! Peter, on the way to his martyrdom, is said to have said to his wife "Remember the Lord".

But what we cannot say is that all of them were married. We cannot take that passage about having one wife as a mandate, as if the bishops *had* to take a wife in order to be bishops.

[trisham]

No, I worked at the Chancery for five years, the last two under him and must confess after seeing the dirty laundry and having me the man that I don't think too much of him.

For instance, let's just say Haddad was not an isolated instance among the lay employees.

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I'm sorry to hear that.