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To: phatus maximus
I'd not think I was cheated in any way.

In brief, here is why Roman Catholic Priests are perpetually celibate. In the Old Testament, during the one time a year the priest offered sacrifice he had to be continent (sexually celibate) and live apart from his wife.As the New testament Priest offers the Holy Sacrifice of the New Covenant Daily, perpetual continence/celibacy is apt. Now, if this Apostolic Discipline is changed, I will accept it but the intellectual case for its retention is gaining momentum; all the inertia is on the side of it staying a Discipline

48 posted on 09/25/2005 8:32:32 AM PDT by bornacatholic
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“have realized the sexual-abuse crisis was a sign of something much deeper and more widespread.” Vatican II thy name is modernism, madness and death.
49 posted on 09/25/2005 8:47:00 AM PDT by Pio (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus)
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To: bornacatholic

As the New testament Priest offers the Holy Sacrifice of the New Covenant Daily, perpetual continence/celibacy is apt. Now, if this Apostolic Discipline is changed, I will accept it but the intellectual case for its retention is gaining momentum; all the inertia is on the side of it staying a Discipline...

Two questions:

What sacrifice does the New Testament Priest offer daily and where in scripture was he commanded to be celibate?

Who is the new testament priest?


72 posted on 09/26/2005 7:10:41 PM PDT by phatus maximus (John 6:29...Learn it, love it, live it...)
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