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To: SmithL

GOOD!!! I say if you don't want to be celibate Don't become a priest - become a minister or reverend. When you go into the priesthood you know what it entails. If you can't do it then leave the priesthood.


3 posted on 11/16/2006 8:16:09 AM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason)
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To: areafiftyone

"I say if you don't want to be celibate Don't become a priest - become a minister or reverend."

This whole issue seems strange to me as an Orthodox Christian. Our priests are married, as you know. In fact, we prefer married priests for parish work. But that aside, every Christian knows the rules for Latin rite clergy. If one wants to be a priest in a church in communion with the Pope and still be married, become a priest of one of the Eastern Churches in communion with Rome, all of which allow married men to be ordained. This business of demanding that Rome change this rule is simply self-centered pride, a lack of humility which should mark one as unfit for Latin Rite priesthood.


8 posted on 11/16/2006 2:59:41 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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