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Vatican’s number 2: Priest celibacy up for discussion
The Daily Caller ^ | September 12, 2013 | Caroline May

Posted on 09/14/2013 9:37:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Vatican’s new secretary of state, Archbishop Pietro Parolin said this week that the issue of priest celibacy is not dogma and is therefore up for discussion.

“It’s not a church dogma and it can be discussed because it is a church tradition,” Parolin told the Venezuelan El Universal, according to a translation by the National Catholic Reporter.

“The work the church did to institute ecclesiastical celibacy must be considered,” said Parolin, who will officially assume the role of secretary of state in October. “We cannot simply say that it is part of the past. It is a great challenge for the pope, because he is the one with the ministry of unity and all of those decisions must be made thinking of the unity of the church and not to divide it.....

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: catholics; celibacy
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To: metmom
All I see here is evasion and deflection in attempt to get people's attention off a claim that pretty clearly false since there is nothing that has been provided to support it.

And this matters to you a great deal, resolve this issue and you're copacetic and satisfied and done with the issue and thread? Or will there be something else you require?

101 posted on 09/16/2013 2:09:48 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Of course it was someone else that you meant to post that other stuff to.

Is the homosexual/boy fascination angle as prevalent in the smaller Episcopalian denomination it is in the Catholic one?


102 posted on 09/16/2013 2:14:26 PM PDT by ansel12 ( 'I'm on That New Obama Diet... Every Day I Let Vladimir Putin Eat My Lunch' .)
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To: ansel12

You are pushing one proposition: That Catholic priests are more likely to be attracted to boys and to molest boys than other social categories of men.

That is false.

You can choose either to look for accurate data, or continue to indulge your appetites.


103 posted on 09/16/2013 6:15:05 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: Gamecock; metmom

We have a rule that one with a homosexual tendency cannot be a priest. Period. Do public school teachers, sports coaches or most Protestant places of worship have a comparable policy?

The “shuffling” may or may not have occurred, a few times when the Church was under the worst Protestant influence ever after Vatican II council. We can purge our liberal semi-Protestant scum out. Can you? You don’t even understand what the problem is: you gave us the modern all-is-permitted society. It is now that Protestantism tries to sound conservative; your entire so-called Reformation was an exercise in liberalism. Fix your own house.


104 posted on 09/16/2013 6:26:09 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: Arthur McGowan

Pushing something, appetites? I asked for clarification of your instruction to look at the Episcopalian Priests and homosexuality.

You made a strange post to me, “”If you are hunting for homosexuals, try the Anglicans and Episcopalians.””

I naturally asked you “”is the homosexual/boy fascination angle as prevalent in the smaller Episcopalian denomination as it is in the Catholic one?””

Your answer doesn’t make sense, it just sounds hostile.


105 posted on 09/16/2013 6:30:54 PM PDT by ansel12 ( 'I'm on That New Obama Diet... Every Day I Let Vladimir Putin Eat My Lunch' .)
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To: annalex
We have a rule that one with a homosexual tendency cannot be a priest. Period.

How's that working out for you?


106 posted on 09/16/2013 6:34:28 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("So we're bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I'm the idiot?" - Sarah Palin)
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To: Salvation

Bfl


107 posted on 09/16/2013 6:37:50 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: annalex; Gamecock
We have a rule that one with a homosexual tendency cannot be a priest. Period.

Then why doesn't the church kick them out when exposed?

Why is there a homosexual lobby within Catholicism?

Why *Once a priest, always a priest?*

Why does the Catholic church allow sacraments administered by men it says can't be priests to be considered valid?

108 posted on 09/16/2013 7:04:07 PM PDT by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: annalex; Gamecock
We have a rule that one with a homosexual tendency cannot be a priest. Period.

Then why doesn't the church kick them out when exposed?

Why is there a homosexual lobby within Catholicism?

Why *Once a priest, always a priest?*

Why does the Catholic church allow sacraments administered by men it says can't be priests to be considered valid?

109 posted on 09/16/2013 7:04:13 PM PDT by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Arthur McGowan; ansel12
You can choose either to look for accurate data, or continue to indulge your appetites.

Tip of the iceberg... The source is a Catholic source. We all know there would never be any attempt the suppress statistics... (do I need a /sarcasm tag?) Plus, we know they would never conceal it.

The apparent default term currently being used for those opposing Rome and its followers is anti-Catholic. I prefer the term "Christian"!

... The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops commissioned the John Jay College of Criminal Justice to conduct a comprehensive study based on surveys completed by the Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States. The product of the study, titled the John Jay Report indicated that some 11,000 allegations had been made against 4,392 priests in the USA. This number constituted approximately 4% of the priests who had served during the period covered by the survey (1950–2002).[28] ...
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sex_abuse_cases_in_the_United_States


111 posted on 09/16/2013 9:56:54 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("So we're bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I'm the idiot?" - Sarah Palin)
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To: WVKayaker
Seeing as this "problem" goes way back well over a thousand years, I'd say not very.

St. Peter Damien's Book of Gommorah

St. Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah, Part 2

112 posted on 09/16/2013 11:30:49 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums

Well, that seems to have brought this thread to a dead screeching halt.....


113 posted on 09/18/2013 11:53:17 AM PDT by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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