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To: Natural Law

lol...that is funny. So all those poor schucks arguing that the RC church should allow its priests to marry....what a waste of time arguing something that doesn’t exist. Please.


31 posted on 06/13/2011 4:41:03 PM PDT by sigzero
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To: sigzero
"So all those poor schucks arguing that the RC church should allow its priests to marry..."

Neither all of those poor "schucks" or the painfully ignorant anti-Catholics who troll these threads define Church dogma and doctrine.

Within the Catholic Church celibacy is not the rule for all Catholic priests. For Eastern Rite Catholics, married priests are the norm, just as they are for Orthodox and Oriental Christians. Within some rites married men can become priests, but single priests cannot marry.

For about the last 1,000 years the rule of the Latin-Rite (Roman) Church has been for priests as well as bishops to take vows of celibacy. This is to ensure that the attention and priorities of the clergy are not divided between a personal family and the needs of his flock. Even today, though, exceptions are made. For example, there are married Latin-Rite priests who are converts from Lutheranism and Episcopalianism. Please.

48 posted on 06/13/2011 5:00:33 PM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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