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To: A.A. Cunningham

No. But assuming he was willing to give up his present career to be a priest, then what, precisely, makes a former Anglican or Episcopal priest an exception to the celibacy requirement, as opposed to every other man?


11 posted on 03/07/2009 3:20:08 PM PST by Tax-chick ("There are more enjoyable ways of going to Hell." ~ St. Bernard)
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To: Tax-chick

That’s just how the pope wrote things out back in the early 80s: http://www.pastoralprovision.org/


12 posted on 03/07/2009 5:50:25 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: Tax-chick

If you are a married Anglican priest and cross the tiber it makes no sense to a) dump your wife, b) divorce her, c) do anything else goofy. The R.C.’s also take older catholic married men into the seminary. It’s the younger unmarried men who are most affected by the celibacy issue. Even R.C. laity aren’t aware of the finer details. (They honestly don’t care either)


13 posted on 03/07/2009 7:21:35 PM PST by x_plus_one (A thousand suckers are born every minute. They are the Obamacracy.)
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To: Tax-chick
"what, precisely, makes a former Anglican or Episcopal priest an exception to the celibacy requirement"

Charity, weakness and Ecumenism.

16 posted on 03/07/2009 10:32:18 PM PST by GonzoII ("That they may be one...Father")
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