To: Zemo
Why is an Orthodox Christian butting in where his opinion is unwanted?
However, I'll note that in neither any Rite of the Catholic Church nor in any Orthodox Church do "priests have a right to marry."
Rather, married men are permitted to become priests. And even in Orthodoxy, only married men who will be parish priests, as opposed to monks, and who will not be bishops, may be ordained to the priesthood.
9 posted on
12/16/2006 1:32:02 PM PST by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: sitetest
The Orthodox consider the Catholics to be a fellow Apostolic church that has fallen into heresy and schism and thus their business - especially since the Pope has made a reconciliation with the Orthodox his mission. So that makes what the Catholics do, Orthodox business.
12 posted on
12/16/2006 1:35:09 PM PST by
Zemo
('Anyone who is able to speak the truth and does not do so will be condemned by God.' - St. Justin)
To: sitetest
"Why is an Orthodox Christian butting in where his opinion is unwanted?"
What?!
Is this a thread for some exclusive group? What an incredibly bigotted remark!
As I understand it, in the 12th century the pope forbade priests to marry as a result of enrichment of their families. If that pope solved a social problem of the day by such a decree, why can't Pope Benedict fix the even greater problem it created (rampant homosexuality in the priesthood) by repealing it?
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