[sitetest]

Dear Desdemona,

"No, sorry comparing sex to Mass is just not in the cards."

Why not? Sex in marriage is a good to which a married person is generally entitled.

But remember, no one has shown that the priest was denied the ability to celebrate the Mass. Only that he was denied the ability to celebrate a particular rite of the Mass in public.

You haven't at all made a case for this priest's blatant disobedience, nor for his shockingly poor treatment of his own flock.

Good night.


sitetest

[Desdemona]

Why not? Sex in marriage is a good to which a married person is generally entitled.

So is self esteem. I think a better argument is the one where the wife obeys the husband by giving up her friends, her style, her personal statement to the world to obey and finds a few years later that she is not functioning because who and what she is is lost. She's overweight, frumpy, no friends. She asks her husband if it's okay to do a make over and maybe join a bridge club and take a walk by herself once a day and he says no. So she does it anyway and he throws her out of the house. She was disobedient.

You haven't at all made a case for this priest's blatant disobedience, nor for his shockingly poor treatment of his own flock.

The priest is in charge. It's his call to make. Every parish I've ever been priests have done this sort of thing, so with me that dog isn't going to hunt, point, retrieve or go to ground. Aside from that, is it any different than when the new Mass was instituted? I know a lot of older people who were horribly offended when that happened. There really was no good warning and the people had no voice.