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To: Rytwyng
>>>>> I agree the problem is ultimately liberalism. But if allowing (or even requiring) married priests can help resist it, or mitigate its damage, why not?<<<<<

One solves problems by addressing the real issue, which, as you agree, is liberalism. Abolishing clerical celibacy to address a temporary problem caused by liberalism risks permanently discarding a tradition that has proved valuable in the past for the sake of a palliative to a temporary problem.

>>>>>>>Look, I'm an Evangelical for a variety of reasons which I won't get into here. But much as I may disagree with the Catholic Church on certain theological issues, I stand with you in the realm of public morality and I want to see you solve this sodomite priest problem as badly as you<<<<<<<

I appreciate your good will toward the Church. Thanks.

234 posted on 01/06/2005 3:58:36 PM PST by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Thorin
Abolishing clerical celibacy to address a temporary problem ...

Last question -- why was clerical matrimony abolished a thousand years ago? What problem were they trying to solve, back then? Is it still in existence a thousand years later, or was it temporary?

237 posted on 01/06/2005 4:08:07 PM PST by Rytwyng (we're here, we're Huguenots, get used to us)
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To: Thorin
I appreciate your good will toward the Church. Thanks.

That good will is starting to crumble. See post 252.

257 posted on 01/07/2005 7:00:59 PM PST by Rytwyng (we're here, we're Huguenots, get used to us)
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