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To: AlbionGirl

###"The celibacy rule, IMO, makes it very difficult to recruit healthy, well-adjusted men."###

Wrong!

A study this past year of the North American College in Rome. (A Catholic College for new priests) showed that the young priests would not have it any other way than celibacy. Also, compared to 10 years ago, many of the seminaries now have waiting lists.

Another study showed that the instance of alcoholism among wives of Protestant clergy is higher than average.


19 posted on 08/13/2006 3:21:01 PM PDT by franky (Pray for the souls of the faithful departed.)
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To: franky

Unfortunately, many of the American Catholic seminaries were taken over by homosexuals from the 1960s on. So right here is where the problem is most acute, not in the Third World. If allowing married men to become priests would help to keep this cancer from propagating within the Church by allowing far more men who love the Church and God to become priests, then on balance I think it would be...frankly, I see no harm to the Catholic Church of doing what the Orthodox Church does on this issue (one area where it is the Orthodox, not the Catholic, Church that is closer to the tradition of the early church....)


134 posted on 08/15/2006 1:56:42 AM PDT by Al Simmons
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