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To: steadfastconservative
Even if the Church permitted married men to be priests, as it once did, it would never allow priests to marry after ordination because that is something that the Church has never permitted.

21 of the 22 Churches sui juris in five of the six Rites which comprise the Catholic Church, ordain, as a norm, married men. The Latin Rite does not.

37 posted on 11/19/2006 10:30:47 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Yes, I should have specified that I was referring to the Latin Rite Church. However, my previous post still stands. None of the churches in communion with Rome have ever permitted clerics to marry (or remarry) after ordination. However, that is exactly what today's advocates of a married priesthood want. They not only want the Church to ordain married men, they also want it to permit priests to marry after ordination, which would be a radical departure from tradition.


46 posted on 11/20/2006 10:28:18 AM PST by steadfastconservative
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