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To: Mrs. Don-o

Pope Francis is homophobic because he said homosexual priests need to be celibate or they’ll be defrocked? And this woman claims to be Catholic? Another homosexual confirms homosexual priests are not to be trusted, as it’s impossible for them to be celibate.


30 posted on 12/13/2018 12:37:58 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted
It's not impossible for a same sex-attracted man to be celibate, but it's extremely difficult because they are trained in seminary and spend much of their time in an all-male environment.

I think at some point there will be canonized saints who are acknowledged to have been same-sex attracted but lived in exemplary chastity.

I'd like to honor John Henry Newman and Gerard Manley Hopkins for this heroic level of purity.

35 posted on 12/13/2018 7:14:56 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God." - 1 Peter 4:17)
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