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To: wideawake
Even if these fake "bishops" were men, then, they still would not be validly consecrated.

Actually, that's not completely true. There is open debate (and there has been for centuries) whether or not in the very very very rarest of cases where grave necessity would necessitate it, that a priest could ordain a priest and/or consecrate a bishop.

Certainly though, this is not one of them.

9 posted on 09/10/2007 12:24:02 PM PDT by GCC Catholic (Sour grapes make terrible whine.)
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To: GCC Catholic

I thought that was decided in Japan. When the priests there died out, there was no bishop and the Japanese Catholics sustained themselves solely through baptism without a clergy for generations until the Church was able to provide them with pastors again.


10 posted on 09/10/2007 12:27:46 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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