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To: BlackElk
It is time and long past time for Rome to bring AmChurch to heel. Calling priests according to the moral or even stylistic preferences of the congregation is a guarantee that we will no longer be one, universal, catholic Church.

Your two well-written and thoughtful posts are consistent with your exceptional conservative credentials and knowledge of Church history.

Maybe I should qualify my statment. I certainly don't favor the veto of clerical appointments by lay people. But, if the Church, especially the Western Church, doesn't seriously address the perception (and, as you know, perception can become reality) that the priesthood is a largely gay playpen in which adolescent males serve as prey, lay people, whose hard-earned money go to pay off the victims of pederasts, will DEMAND that they be served by men who will at the very least OBEY THE LAW!

106 posted on 03/04/2002 4:32:34 PM PST by sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
May I enthusiastically join you in each and every word, nuance, implication and inference of the second paragraph of your #106 and say that I am humbly grateful for your kind words in the first paragraph?
115 posted on 03/04/2002 6:41:07 PM PST by BlackElk
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