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To: SnakeDoctor

That you don’t understand St. Paul or celibacy doesn’t exactly increase your credibility on on the subject for me.


112 posted on 03/29/2010 3:17:54 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr

I apparently understand celibacy better than do many Catholic priests who either mistook their commitment, underestimated their urges, or overestimated their strength. I understand celibacy well enough to know that I have not been granted that particular gift.

Celibacy is a rare and admirable gift for the few that are granted it. But, that all clergy must be celibate is a fabrication of the Catholic church.

SnakeDoc


128 posted on 03/29/2010 3:30:48 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant ... that even a god-king can bleed." - 300)
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