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To: vladimir998; Joseph DeMaistre; Kolokotronis
I have noticed that a number of people in this thread repeatedly express something incorrectly. (You're NOT one of them!) Here's an example: "So to be correct, Latin Rite Catholic clergy are the only Catholic clergy forbidden to marry though this is in violation of the rulings of the Ecumenical Council on married clergy (though I forget which one)." NONE...I mean NONE of clergy in the historic churches (Catholic and Orthodox) marry AFTER ordination.

Where did I imply clergy may marry after they are ordained? The above article is about the Orthodox position of marriage vs the Latin position (or as I like to call them the Frankish-Latin rite to mark the development of the Latin church after the Popes turned to the Franks for protection).

118 posted on 12/16/2006 8:15:04 PM PST by Zemo ('Anyone who is able to speak the truth and does not do so will be condemned by God.' - St. Justin)
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To: Zemo

You wrote: "Where did I imply clergy may marry after they are ordained?"

Did you write this: "Latin Rite Catholic clergy are the only Catholic clergy forbidden to marry though this is in violation of the rulings of the Ecumenical Council on married clergy (though I forget which one)." If you did, then haven't you answered your own question?

"The above article is about the Orthodox position of marriage vs the Latin position (or as I like to call them the Frankish-Latin rite to mark the development of the Latin church after the Popes turned to the Franks for protection)."

Wow, just get done reading Romanides huh? How about calling it what it is? It is the Roman Church. Why not call it the Roman Church? Do you want us to start referring to the Greek Orthodox Church as "Muslim-Greek rite" church? After all, didn't some Greek Orthodox embrace iconclasm after the rise of iconoclastic Islam? Would that be fair? No, not really. Leo the Isaurian may have made his choices in part because of Islam, but Islam didn't change church teaching. The Franks didn't change church teaching either.


123 posted on 12/16/2006 8:30:02 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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