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To: old and tired
However, I'd rather have a celibate woman priest than a married man. And since the Holy Father has told us we'll never have female priests, I guess at some point the pope will need to decide if we should have married priests.

Why are you setting up all these false choices? This isn't an "either/or" scenario as the liberals within the Church would have you believe. The celibate, non-homosexual, male priesthood will persist and prevail as the only option in the Latin rite, despite the best efforts of all those critters of various stripes who are opposed. And if we get a few more bishops like Fabian Bruskewitz, this manufactured priest "crisis" will evaporate in short order.

If you ask me, the "old and tired" revolutionaries of the 1960s church are in full panic mode, sensing that their "reforms" are about to be turned back by a younger generation that holds a more traditional view of the Church. This attack on priestly celibacy may be their last hurrah before they fade into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
52 posted on 12/30/2003 7:14:37 PM PST by Antoninus (In hoc signo, vinces †)
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To: Antoninus
"If you ask me, the "old and tired" revolutionaries of the 1960s church are in full panic mode, sensing that their "reforms" are about to be turned back by a younger generation that holds a more traditional view of the Church. This attack on priestly celibacy may be their last hurrah before they fade into the oblivion they so richly deserve."

I wish that what you say were true, however, I think you underestimate the extent of the liberal infiltration of the hierarchy and the curia.

There is a raging battle going on for the very soul of the Church which cuts right through the Vatican - it is going on right now, and it is a battle that is balanced on a knife edge.

The next Pope is going to be so crucial for how this will play out, and the odds are looking like he will be a weaker man than JPII.

We all need to be praying and doing penance for the fidelity of the hierarchy.
59 posted on 12/31/2003 3:05:45 AM PST by Tantumergo
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To: Antoninus
Amen. women priests are an ontological impossibility
61 posted on 12/31/2003 3:27:26 AM PST by Catholicguy (MT1618 Church of Peter remains pure and spotless from all leading into error, or heretical fraud)
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