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To: 1010RD

What faith community do you belong to?


212 posted on 04/23/2010 6:20:38 PM PDT by narses (Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.)
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To: narses

Non-Catholic, but Christian. I know you think I am looking to bash you as a Catholic, but I am not. I just pinged you because you had the post. If you don’t want to answer the question I can try another Catholic FReeper. That would be OK with me and no hard feelings. Or we can FReepmail to keep the answer private. I am not anti-Catholic at all. I like Catholics, but I am simply curious. I had thought that Apostolic Succession and the priesthood were two fundamental tenets of Catholicism.

If you will answer it then I’d like to know - Can any layperson perform the Seven Sacraments given the correct intent, matter and form?

Where I am going with this is that if anybody can do it, what value is the Catholic priesthood?


214 posted on 04/23/2010 6:34:42 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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