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To: Salvation

Priests and deacons should be free to marry. As the Pope himself has correctly pointed out:

1) Mandatory clerical celibacy is not a dogma etched in stone, but rather a discipline.

2) The policy is subject to change.

3) Catholic priests in Eastern Europe and the Middle East are permitted to marry.

4) The policy of compulsory clerical celibacy was not implemented until about 1,000 years after the founding of the Church.

Further, there is absolutely NOTHING in the Bible requiring such a draconian policy. Quite the contrary. Priests in the Bible were married men from Aaron on down and the Bible specifically permits married clergy.


3 posted on 08/28/2014 12:04:28 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Deacons can be married. Permanent deacons, that is.

A transitional deacon makes a vow to keep Christ number one in his life and become a priest.

I don’ think your musings about priests will happen.

Nothing in the Bible? Oh how mistaken you are. For Jesus Christ himself was not married. He as well as all priests, chose and choose to do God’s will.

Good example to follow, I think.


4 posted on 08/28/2014 3:49:47 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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