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Does your repeated public opposition to the Pope on the matter of Priestly Celibacy show reverence and obedience to the Supreme Pontiff?

It shows the same reverence that my opposition to his position on the death penalty and the war on Iraq shows.

It shows the same reverence that my opposition to his position on the death penalty and the war on Iraq shows.

Again, you are mixing fruit. Church discipline is the pope's domain. Civil responsibilities such as waging war and applying the death penalty are not. It's the same irreverance.

P.S. The pope is right about the DP too.

Sink, try adopt a more modest approach. Before you begin mounting the public pulpit to denouce the entire Latin Rite and the Pope and the entire Living Magisterium for maintaining an ancient Apostolic Discipline don't you think you first ought to obey Canon Law and discharge the duites you freely accepted.

Or, do your promises have no merit?

It is a bit unseemly to witness those unwilling to fulfill obligations freely undertaken insist others who do faithfully fulfill their obligations change ancient Apostolic Mandatory Disciplines to satisfy your personal agenda - which just happens to match the agenda of others who are disobedient - the NCR, the Feminists, and the vow-breaking priests and nuns they dominate.

Just what sort of Bizarro world do you inhabit where it is ok for you as a Christian Deacon to violate Canon Law and to break promises you freely and willingly made?

What about the matter of integrity? How can you as a Christian Deacon (presuming you are a Deacon) fulfill your role as a Deacon while publicly breaking your promises and insisting others change to fit your personal desires? Have you no shame?

I have dealt with liberals who have no shame or integrity but they were smart enough not to pursue an arguement in which they were being revealed as a phony. They had more self-respect. It appears to me you have as much respect for yourself and your own integrity as you have respect for the promises you have made and are now breaking. You appear to have no shame.

Please prayerfully review Canon # 276 CLERICS HAVE A SPECIAL OBLIGATION TO SEEK HOLINESS IN THEIR LIVES, BECAUSE THEY ARE CONSECRATED TO GOD BY A NEW TITLE THROUGH THE RECEPTION OF ORDERS, AND ARE STEWARDS OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD IN THE SERVICE OF HIS PEOPLE. IN ORDER THAT THEY CAN PURSUE THIS PERFECTION: THEY ARE IN THE FIRST PLACE FAITHFULLY AND UNTIRINGLY TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATIONS OF THEIR PASTORAL MINISTRY...

You clearly are violating Canon Law and the promises you freely made. Please repent and cease the scandalous behavior.