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To: Mad Dawg
Saying that the Catholic Church forbids married priests is not saying the truth.

Men who were married before and their wife died? Or men who are priests, decide to marry and can stay in the priesthood?

YOUR 'married priests' means what to you - you want to explain that? Or is saying I'm lying with one of the church changes with a 'gotcha'.

In my time, NO priests or brothers were allowed to marry. So don't accuse me of lying. The RCC changes 'their rules' all the time. UNLIKE the WORD of God that NEVER CHANGES - and HIS church never changes since it's consistent with His Word.


1,966 posted on 07/11/2010 9:09:52 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name
Men who were married before and their wife died? Or men who are priests, decide to marry and can stay in the priesthood?

At least since the late fifteen hundreds century men who are married can become priests in some rites.

So unless you are VERY old indeed, this has not changed.

I did not accuse you of lying, because that means you intended the falsehood. I did say you said something false.

However, proclaiming something which is false with an air of certainty does suggest the possibility of a little carelessness about truth, a little over-zealousness.

This is not a "gotcha." You made a series of charges about the Catholic Church. One of them was based on at least one error of fact. Therefore the charge was, at best, doubtful. That's all.

1,972 posted on 07/11/2010 9:36:41 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (O Maria, sine labe concepta, ora pro nobis qui ad te confugimus.)
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