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To: irishjuggler
You source leaves me VERY suspicious. All google references seem to point to the same article. Catholic sources seem to dispute this claim.

Vienna, Austria, Mar 11, 2010 / 08:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After media outlets misinterpreted an article by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn to say that he is questioning the Church's rule of priestly celibacy, several high ranking churchmen have spoken out in praise of celibacy as a gift. They also dismissed the idea that celibacy is connected to pedophilia.

116 posted on 02/12/2013 2:09:49 AM PST by papertyger
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To: papertyger
You source leaves me VERY suspicious. All google references seem to point to the same article. Catholic sources seem to dispute this claim.

You're free to disregard the evidence, but Austria is a hotbed of liberal dissent within the Church. Schönborn isn't leading that movement, but he has tolerated it. Approximately 300 priests in his country endorsed something entitled 'Call to Disobedience,' demanding women priests, married priests, relaxed attitudes toward homosexuality, divorce, etc. Schönborn denounced the movement, but virtually all sources indicate that he 'resisted' taking disciplinary action against these priests.
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=13948

If this is the way he runs the Austrian church, Schönborn would be a disaster as pope.
127 posted on 02/12/2013 10:58:44 AM PST by irishjuggler
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