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To: Vaquero

>> So lets say I want to be married and be a priest....I could become an Anglican priest, get married, then decide to join the Catholic Church as a priest and bingo...married priest... <<

You write as if successfully deceiving people were a given. You’d have to be ordained a bishop who himself was ordained by three bishops who had apostolic succession undisrupted by formal heresy. Of course, for your priestly formation, the Anglicans would have to believe your conversion was sincere. The conservatives — those whose ordination would be meaningful to the Catholic Church — would be the least likely to accept that. Then you’d have to convince your Catholic bishop that your re-conversion was sincere. Yeah, what kind of an idiot to take him for?


20 posted on 01/31/2011 9:58:45 AM PST by dangus ("The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops" -- St. John Crysostom ("the Golden-Mouthed"))
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To: dangus
Then you’d have to convince your Catholic bishop that your re-conversion was sincere

Actually, I believe that Episcopal priests and Lutheran ministers who were baptized and confirmed as Catholics are not eligible for priestly ordination upon reversion.

21 posted on 01/28/2013 2:40:23 PM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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