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Program of Priestly Formation - Fifth Edition
1 posted on 08/30/2006 6:14:31 AM PDT by NYer
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2 posted on 08/30/2006 6:16:10 AM PDT by NYer ("That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah." Hillel)
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Rule One: No Poofters.


3 posted on 08/30/2006 6:31:32 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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12 posted on 08/30/2006 9:04:32 AM PDT by Coleus (I Support Research using the Ethical, Effective and Moral use of stem cells: non-embryonic "adult")
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Oh Lord. Cleanse your church. Give her Godly men to serve you. Give her men who will love Your Church and defend her. Give her men who will not be afraid to declare Your glory and Your Gospel. Give her men who will not sully your Bride. Amen.

Holy Mary pray for the Church and all who serve Her.


13 posted on 08/30/2006 9:43:38 AM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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Priestly celebacy was not stressed earlier because it has never officially been an issue. Of course priests and seminarians are expected to be celebate.

The problem is that so many seminary teachers and administrators went off the rails and took dissident positions back in the sixties and seventies. Not to mention bishops. Since then these dissidents have done everything they could to clone junior editions of themselves.

It's mainly a problem of personnel and discipline. First, you need orthodox bishops who are committed to the teachings of the Church. Then you need orthodox people on the bishops' staffs. Then you need orthodox catechists and seminary teachers.

There's no harm in making the rules more explicit. But until you get rid of people like Gumbleton, clean out the NCCB staff, clean out the dissident theologians who are misteaching the candidates in Catholic schools and colleges, and on down the list, the problem won't be solved.


14 posted on 08/30/2006 9:48:37 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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It would be good idea to reintroduce Thomistic philosophy and get rid of everything written from Descarte on.


18 posted on 08/30/2006 10:08:00 AM PDT by Ozone34
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New US Seminary Guidelines Insist on Total Acceptance of Full Teaching on Sexuality

32 posted on 08/30/2006 7:55:29 PM PDT by Coleus (I Support Research using the Ethical, Effective and Moral use of stem cells: non-embryonic "adult")
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That section focuses especially on the concrete skills, behaviors, attitudes and supports men need in order to form an effective, mature commitment to a chaste life of celibacy.

This is GREAT news! If you expect them to live chastely, you'd better teach them how to do that well.

35 posted on 09/01/2006 1:34:43 PM PDT by SuziQ
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