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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

No priest is permitted to marry anywhere. Married men are sometimes ordained. There’s a difference. The married clergy model has been tried and found to be gravely inadequate and even counterproductive to the demands of the priestly life.


49 posted on 01/28/2015 12:44:47 PM PST by Romulus
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To: Romulus

Absolute nonsense. Although I am not a fan of the current Pope, he has said three things about clerical celibacy:

1) The policy is not a dogma or a doctrine, but rather a discipline.

2) The policy was implemented many centuries after the founding of the Church.

3) The policy is not etched in stone and is subject to change.

All of which is of course correct.

Further, priests were married men in the Bible, in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.

May I refer you to 1 Timothy 3:2:

“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach.”


53 posted on 01/28/2015 12:50:22 PM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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