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To: OLD REGGIE

What is the point of your post? Is it that the Church's rule on celibacy is not valid because a few popes violated it? If that were the case, then the Church's prohibition against fornication would also be invalid.

Your list proves nothing. It doesn't prove that the papacy is an illegitimate institution nor does it prove that celibacy is a bad discipline. It only shows that you have an anti-Catholic bias that you just can't hide.


33 posted on 11/18/2006 10:35:42 AM PST by steadfastconservative
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To: steadfastconservative
What is the point of your post? Is it that the Church's rule on celibacy is not valid because a few popes violated it? If that were the case, then the Church's prohibition against fornication would also be invalid.

Your list proves nothing. It doesn't prove that the papacy is an illegitimate institution nor does it prove that celibacy is a bad discipline. It only shows that you have an anti-Catholic bias that you just can't hide.

I replied specifically to your sanctimonious post #26 where you implied the "rules" were followed faithfully by the clergy.

They were not followed faithfully, then or now.

What I posted was actuality. What you posted was theory.

Rules are useless unless they are followed.

Your resort to the old canard of accusing me of anti-catholic bias really indicates you have no valid answer thus you are compelled to ad hominem attacks.

34 posted on 11/18/2006 11:55:45 AM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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