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To: xzins
Thanks for the vote of confidence. A Catholic view of the matter should (I believe) look something like this:

My Pastor ... or any other priest ... or Bishop ... or Pope ... is, in and of himself, a sinful man as much in need of Jesus' saving Grace as you or I. And as even the most casual observer can tell, historically some of them have seemed to be far more Grace-filled than others. They are called (by God) to to an office of enormous responsibility, but also given the Grace (by God, though the Sacrament of Holy Orders) to fulfill that responsibility. What they do with it can be great or scandalous.

Yes, we believe that Holy Orders leaves an "indelible mark" on their soul ... but it doesn't make them anything other than human.

To suggest that we believe that the priest is some sort of half-divine superman is an egregious act of false witness.

38 posted on 06/15/2007 11:29:33 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard; CHAMPION; xzins
Yes, we believe that Holy Orders leaves an "indelible mark" on their soul ... but it doesn't make them anything other than human.

Not according to the link I posted in #46 written in an RC publication by a RC priest, author and apologist --

"Orders produce an ontological or real change in the one ordained."

47 posted on 06/15/2007 12:25:57 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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