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To: NYer

It would be a lot easier just to drop the celibacy rule and let Priests get married.


6 posted on 10/08/2011 2:24:18 PM PDT by Venturer
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It would be a lot easier just to drop the celibacy rule and let Priests get married.

If that were true then the 21 of the 22 Churches sui juris in the Church which already ordain, as a norm, married men, wouldn't have a shortage of Priests.

Priests have never been allowed to lawfully contract marriage and remain Priests. While married men were indeed ordained, they were required to adopt the discipline of lex continentiae and forego a conjugal life.

Your specious, at best, solution comports so well with the teaching of Christ and is indicative of your lack of understanding of the ministerial Priesthood of the ordained.

"Then Jesus said to His disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me." Matthew 16:24

Catholics are already notoriously cheap in supporting single Priests. Where do you propose that the money is going to come from to support a married Priest and his family? What if the Priest's wife throws in the towel and wants a divorce? What if she has an affair? What if he has an affair?

Your "easier" solution is no solution whatsoever.

17 posted on 10/08/2011 3:44:37 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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