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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

“Celibacy” was never dogma. Do you even know what the dogmas of the Church are?

I’m really beginning to think that you don’t know the difference between dogma, doctrine and discipline.


299 posted on 06/13/2014 1:25:14 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Celibacy is a doctrine of the Catholic Church.

There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the Bible mandating celibacy as a requirement for service in the priesthood. To the contrary, priests and bishops in the Bible and in early Catholic Church were married men. Celibacy was introduced much later.


320 posted on 06/16/2014 6:33:35 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: ebb tide

Correction: I meant to say celibacy is a discipline of the Catholic Church.

BTW the current Pope has said the policy is always subject to change. I agree with the Pope.


321 posted on 06/16/2014 6:37:59 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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