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To: NYer
Don't yell at me. I'll cry!

I know all that. If somebody;s wife ups and leaves him, well, it might bear looking into, but it MIGHT be nothing to do with him, qua him. Even if one exercises great judgment at the time of marriage, people change and not everyone thinks what we think about matrimony - especially if they're Episcopalians.

I mean, I certainly that priest is out of the marriage market, and I always said in the old days if I were in charge the priest would be relieved of pastoral responsibility for some time, and the causes would have to be examined.

IS it your thought a priest ought to have an unimpeachable in any respect whatsoever marriage? Bot all of that is under his control, but it IS a great argument for celibacy.

34 posted on 11/01/2009 5:27:09 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin: pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg; NYer

An interesting thing in my diocese: we have a priest who was married, then divorced and annulled, and then became a priest (a late vocation). I had no idea that was allowed and had never heard of it before.


35 posted on 11/01/2009 5:36:05 PM PST by PatriotGirl827 (Pray for the United States of America!)
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