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To: ArrogantBustard

If character is the issue, you’re standing on very shaky ground, considering the shocking number of male priests who have sexually abused CHILDREN in recent decades. Do you think they saw the priesthood in terms of service and sacrifice?

Your sweeping generalization about women you see as “clamouring for ordination” is especially weak in this context.

If women were eligible, then perhaps we would have sufficient qualified, decent applicants for the priesthood to actually achieve a majority of priests interested in service and sacrifice. At the moment, it’s slim pickin’s.


15 posted on 04/28/2008 7:46:55 AM PDT by TraditionalistMommy
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To: TraditionalistMommy
If character is the issue, you’re standing on very shaky ground,

Actually, I'm standing on very solid ground ... the attitude of those who most loudly clamour for female ordination closely mirrors (IMHO) that of those men who have of late behaved most disgracefully in the priesthood.

22 posted on 04/28/2008 8:04:18 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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