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To: NYer
One must be careful in suggesting pious motives for the celibacy of Latin rite priests. To imply that it comes from Christ or that it is much more than a discipline for the purpose of control, could be insulting to many married priests of the Eastern rites.
56 posted on 12/12/2008 7:30:51 AM PST by VidMihi ("In fide, unitas; in dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, caritas.")
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To: VidMihi
To imply that it comes from Christ or that it is much more than a discipline for the purpose of control, could be insulting to many married priests of the Eastern rites.

It is a discipline in both the West and the East.

58 posted on 12/12/2008 7:50:37 AM PST by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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