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To: bkaycee

That is addressed to the gnostics who indeed forbade people to marry and forbade certain foods. But the scripture also teaches that celibacy is good for the servant of God (1 Cor 7:32-25) and so are various forms of mortification of the flesh, including fasting: Romans 8:13, Matthew 4:2.

The Curch does not force anyone to be a vegetarian or to go into Latin Rite priesthood. These are things people do voluntarily.


1,224 posted on 11/09/2010 6:21:06 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex; bkaycee

What is with the RCC’s obsession with sex. They treat it as if it’s dirty or something.

Priests can’t marry. Mary was always a virgin.


1,228 posted on 11/09/2010 7:04:53 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: annalex
The Curch does not force anyone to be a vegetarian or to go into Latin Rite priesthood. These are things people do voluntarily.

And yet it denies marriage to the "priesthood", specifically contradicting Paul, and again meatless friday's (or Mortal sin) in direct opposition to scripture.

1,245 posted on 11/10/2010 6:32:48 AM PST by bkaycee
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