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To: RaginCajunTrad; sinkspur
"Catholics don't favor the return of the Tridentine Mass, But they DO favor optional celibacy."

Of course, Sink, the "Catholic" educators (in Seminaries and elsewhere) have been agitating for optional celibacy for many years. And believe it or not, many of them have LIED LIKE HELL about the "historical data" to make their case.

Just might have had an effect on the survey data...

49 posted on 08/19/2003 9:29:00 PM PDT by ninenot (Democrats make mistakes. RINOs don't correct them.--Chesterton (adapted by Ninenot))
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To: ninenot
Of course, Sink, the "Catholic" educators (in Seminaries and elsewhere) have been agitating for optional celibacy for many years. And believe it or not, many of them have LIED LIKE HELL about the "historical data" to make their case.

Believe it or not, I've never publically advocated a change to the celibacy law, in RCIA, or anywhere else. Nobody cares what I think in a forum like that; they want Church teaching.

No, the people I know who favor married priests have encountered a couple of Anglican dispensation priests, who manage to minister every bit as freely as celibate priests, and who can out-preach every celibate priest I know.

Oh, and they've also encountered married deacons, who are requested by engaged couples to witness their marriages.

I must be in a unique diocese, but we've got married clerics running around all over the place, and the celibates are trying to keep up!

50 posted on 08/19/2003 9:39:18 PM PDT by sinkspur (Get two dogs and be part of a pack!)
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