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To: Thorin
But fortunately the Vicar of Christ is rather less eager to jettison centuries of tradition to appease the devotees of the Sexual Revolution.

Are the other 22 Rites of the Catholic Church that ordain married men devotees of the Sexual Revolution?

200 posted on 01/06/2005 10:21:34 AM PST by sinkspur ("How dare you presume to tell God what He cannot do" God Himself)
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To: sinkspur
>>>>>>Are the other 22 Rites of the Catholic Church that ordain married men devotees of the Sexual Revolution?<<<<

No, because that has been a constant tradition in those rites.

But those advocating the overthrow of a tradition that has served the Latin Rite well for centuries often are. Many of the proponents of this change also agitate for changing Church doctrine on contraception and the ordination of women, see nothing terribly wrong in sexual sins such as fornication and sodomy (as opposed to the made up sin of "sexism"), and are offended by celibacy precisely because it suggests that sex is not the summum bonum of human existence.

Celibacy is also trotted out to as an explanation for declining vocations. However, as I pointed out yesterday, the reason for declining vocations is liberalism, not celibacy.

202 posted on 01/06/2005 10:40:23 AM PST by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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