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To: stfassisi
Try and find an Early Church Father who denied this? Actual writing, not someones interpretation of them

The early RCC church and church fathers did not require priests to be unmarried and celibate, did they? Were they wrong on that matter? Can't pick and choose. They were generally good, but fallible men.

95 posted on 06/03/2007 10:35:03 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: SeaHawkFan
The early RCC church and church fathers did not require priests to be unmarried and celibate, did they? Were they wrong on that matter? Can't pick and choose. They were generally good, but fallible men.

Priests being unmarried is not dogma. It could possibly change in the future.

97 posted on 06/03/2007 10:43:41 AM PDT by stfassisi ("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"St Francis Assisi)
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The early RCC church and church fathers did not require priests to be unmarried and celibate, did they?

The modern RCC does not requires ALL priests to be unmarried and celibate.

162 posted on 08/05/2007 5:53:04 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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