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To: Peach
"What will the Roman Catholic Church do with divorced and remarried couples? And our Anglican priest is married. I must be missing something here..."

The same thing they do with divorced and re-married Catholics--discern whether the original marriage was valid (annulment). It "does" happen in the RC church.

As to what happens to the married Anglican priest--that depends on what HE wants. Quite a few married Anglican priests have converted, and are now Roman Catholic priests (and still married). I think the only caveat is that if his wife dies, he cannot marry again. And, or course, the church has to agree to accept him. But, in any event, the precedents are already in place.

15 posted on 02/18/2007 5:39:12 PM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Wonder Warthog

I thought it only happened in the RC church if an annulment was granted? No way am I going through that; I don't believe in it.


16 posted on 02/18/2007 5:41:31 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Married Anglican priests have remained married and become Catholic priests. I believe we have two in our Archdiocese.


35 posted on 02/18/2007 6:56:35 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Wonder Warthog

I would not want to touch the divorce/annulment issues at this time.


36 posted on 02/18/2007 6:57:37 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Wonder Warthog

I know that the church has done that in the past with Anglican priests, but I thought that the Church did not accept the validity of Anglican Sacrament of Orders. Do you know if an Anglican Priest converting to Catholicism must be re-ordained by a Catholic bishop in order to function as a priest?


92 posted on 02/20/2007 6:06:51 PM PST by old republic
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