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To: NYer
This is quite different.

No it isn't. One is proposing to ordain married men, and the other is also proposing to ordain married men. The only difference is that in one case the men were previously involved in Protestant ministry, and in the other the men were (usually) baptized Catholics as infants.

IMO, the requirement for Eastern Catholics to ordain only celibate men is bogus and wrong. It's a violation of the agreements by which they (re)entered communion with the Holy See, and was done only to placate certain American Latin hierarchs with a habit of sticking their noses in things that were none of their business.

Let the Greeks be Greeks, and the Latins be Latins, and if that means the Greek priest has a wife and 10 kids, good for him and Glory to God.

22 posted on 11/09/2011 2:15:49 PM PST by Campion ("It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Franklin)
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To: Campion
IMO, the requirement for Eastern Catholics to ordain only celibate men is bogus and wrong.

There is no such requirement. You're confused.

36 posted on 11/09/2011 8:07:48 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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