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To: RobbyS

We have a particular nature as well, which is why Thomas More chose not to become a priest and became a lawyer.>>>

I don,t know when the Church started the idea of unmarried priests but that is kind of what i was referring to.


51 posted on 12/08/2013 10:55:23 AM PST by ravenwolf
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To: ravenwolf

Why not reflect on Matthew 19: 10-12? The Church’s rule is pretty much the same. An “apostle,” such as Paul—or John Wesley—probably should not marry. Too much time on the road to be fair to the wife and kids. Maybe parish priests should be married men, like in the Eastern rites. But that creates other problems, for instance what our Lord was speaking about before, which is divorce. You think living with the same women,” till death do us part,” is “more natural” than remaining celibate?


52 posted on 12/08/2013 1:04:23 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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