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To: Legatus

I too probably agree with my Church on about 95% of issues. I love my Church have no intention of ever leaving it. I must say I am profoundly disappointed in many of the economic pronouncements I hear these days from our new Pope. But I am glad that he recently said the Church’s policy on clerical celibacy is not etched in stone and is subject to change.


238 posted on 06/11/2014 8:28:53 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Clerical celibacy has always been a discipline and not a doctrine, although I think it would be a nightmare if the Latin Church allowed married men in great numbers to become priests. Clerical celibacy was one of the things that attracted me to Catholicism because I’m a PK (Preacher’s Kid) and saw too many of my peers lives wrecked because their fathers were busy working for the church (as they should have been) and not raising their families (as they also should have been).

But 95% agreement... you don’t believe in the Immaculate Conception (I think), the perpetual virginity of Mary... do you believe in the Assumption? (What do you do on August 15th, compromise your beliefs and go to Mass anyhow?) You appear to believe that the Bible is the supreme authority in matters of faith, where does that put holy Tradition? How about auricular Confession? Male only ministerial priesthood, the ministerial priesthood period? How do you get to an “orthodox” belief in the Trinity, the 7 Sacraments (especially what the Church teaches about the Eucharist), contraception and Purgatory from the Bible alone? etc, etc, and on and on. To me it all hangs together or it all falls apart.

I’m not running a quiz here to test your orthodoxy, but I am trying to understand how you make it work while being intellectually honest with yourself (which I presume you are).


239 posted on 06/11/2014 9:00:41 AM PDT by Legatus (Keep calm and carry on)
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