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To: Fr Bernard
Anglican Clergy can do a quick conversion course and receive Catholic Orders along with his wife and kids.

Incorrect. The "conversion course"(sic) is not quick and is by no means automatic and the wife and kids do not receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

However for myself as a Canon Law Doctor

I for one as a Roman Catholic priest

I call BS. Please post your verifiable CV including contact information for your superior.

If you are a priest you should be dismissed from the clerical state on the grounds of being an ignoramus.

Married men with a wife and family is ideal says any church.

You're ignorant of Scripture as well, "Father".

"But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God. But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how she may please her husband. And this I speak for your profit: not to cast a snare upon you; but for that which is decent, and which may give you power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment." 1 Corinthians 7:32-35

The Greek, Coptic, Anglican Old Catholic, Russian have them why not in Gods Name can the Roman Catholic have them.

21 of the 22 Churches sui juris which comprise the Catholic Church ordain, as a norm, married men. Once ordained a single Priest may not then marry and remain in the clerical state, just like the Greek Orthodox. However, if the wife of a Priest or Deacon precedes her husband in death he must then adopt the discipline of celibacy, same as with those married protestant ministers who convert and are ordained under the Pastoral Provision or dispensation. The Latin Rite of the Church chooses to emulate the example of Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul with the discipline of clerical celibacy. If you don't like it, petition the Holy See to dismiss you from the clerical state.


13 posted on 07/03/2008 7:07:47 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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