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To: Petrosius

Christ was never married yet we have married priests,both in the Eastern Rite and the Western.


19 posted on 01/29/2020 6:54:39 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Christ was never married yet we have married priests,both in the Eastern Rite and the Western.

While I am an advocate for priestly celibacy, I do admit that Jesus chose at least one married man, Peter, to be an apostle. But you are evading my point. Was Jesus unjust or misogynist in choosing only men to be apostles? The all-male priesthood in both the Old and New Testaments were by the will of God. Are we to disagree with that; are we to disagree with Him? As Catholics, are we to disregard Sacred Tradition? Pope St. John Paul II also declared as a part of the infallible Magisterium of the Church that the Church has no authority to ordain women. Are we to dissent for this Church teaching? On what basis?

22 posted on 01/29/2020 7:06:33 PM PST by Petrosius
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