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To: texanred
Dear texanred,

The Church cannot permit priests to marry.

However, she can permit married men to be ordained to the priesthood. That is a matter of discipline.

She cannot validly ordain women. That is a matter of doctrine.


sitetest

9 posted on 01/03/2013 2:20:57 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: sitetest; texanred

With the dilineation/guideline that if their wife dies, they then cannot remarry and must remain celibate.

There are more and more Anglican priests coming to the Catholic Church; I believe we have two or three in our diocese. I went to the ordination of one (along with eight other men) and his wife and grown children were there with him.


20 posted on 01/03/2013 4:39:16 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: sitetest
The Church could permit priests to marry. The ordination of women is forbidden, now and forever.
21 posted on 01/03/2013 4:43:51 PM PST by RPTMS
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