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To: Verginius Rufus

I’d also like to add that the great St. Patrick ( contemporary of St. Augustine ), who evangelized Ireland, was the grandson of a priest.


23 posted on 06/19/2009 12:03:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I’d also like to add that the great St. Patrick ( contemporary of St. Augustine ), who evangelized Ireland, was the grandson of a priest.

So is my pastor but he chose the celibate life. The Eastern Catholic Churches have married priests but marriage precedes ordination. Married priests may not remarry, nor serve as bishops.

As a point of reflection, the greatest difficulty today with a married priesthood is precisely the cultural view of marriage. Marriage as a sacrament entails marriage to one woman for life. Societal norms today support divorce and homosexual marriage. To compound matters, consider the additional expense a parish would need to absorb in order to support a priest's wife and children, their living expenses, cars, insurance, college education, etc. There will be no changes in the Latin Church for now, if ever.

37 posted on 06/19/2009 3:50:13 PM PDT by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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