To: sinkspur
Are you not a permanent ordained Deacon in the Latin Rite?
If that is so, how can you so cavalierly reject Catholic discipline? Were you not required to assert fidelity to both Catholic teaching and Catholic discipline?
Sursum Corda
77 posted on
09/10/2003 8:31:28 PM PDT by
Sursum Corda
(Pray for the restoration of the Mass of the Ages.)
To: Sursum Corda
If that is so, how can you so cavalierly reject Catholic discipline? Were you not required to assert fidelity to both Catholic teaching and Catholic discipline? I promised to remain celibate if my wife dies, but I never had to assent to never disagreeing with mandatory celibacy for priests.
The practice is a discipline, much like "the pledge" not to drink for five years that was administered to newly-ordained priests in the 40s and 50s. They didn't sin by taking a drink (indeed, many did), and I don't sin by questioning mandatory celibacy, especially since I, myself, am an exception to it for Holy Orders.
92 posted on
09/10/2003 8:44:33 PM PDT by
sinkspur
(Adopt a dog or a cat from a shelter! You'll save at least one life, maybe two!)
To: Sursum Corda
Take this to the religion forum.
To: Sursum Corda
If that is so, how can you so cavalierly reject Catholic discipline?
not a catholic thread...
stay on topic.
170 posted on
09/10/2003 10:45:13 PM PDT by
Robert_Paulson2
(robert the rino... following in the footsteps of other great rinos. reagan, bush, arnold, gingrich)
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