To: newgeezer
Actually, that's because the Church has always treated the male priesthood as a question of tradition and discipline, not of absolute Scriptural authority.
6 posted on
06/08/2006 10:10:57 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: AnAmericanMother; newgeezer
NOT so ... see again the late Pope John Paul II's letter Ordination Sacerdotalis, linked above. The matter of priestly celibacy IS, as you say, one of tradition and discipline.
9 posted on
06/08/2006 10:13:43 AM PDT by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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