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To: metmom; Mad Dawg
Whatever happened to unity and consistency of teaching of the Catholic church anyway? If priests are permitted to be married, why is it so pervasive and such pervasive knowledge that Catholic priests are celibate?

Because Mad Dawg didn't tell you the whole story. Maybe he forgot? Maybe he didn't feel it necessary to explain the special conditions involved. Why don't you ask him?

3,991 posted on 09/12/2010 10:23:00 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: OLD REGGIE; metmom
Because Mad Dawg didn't tell you the whole story. Maybe he forgot?

If somebody says that the Catholic Church does not allow married priests, my work is done if I show it has allowed one. And in fact, the frist time this came up I mentioned the uniate churches and the "pastoral provision." The recent outreach to disaffected Anglicans has been in the news, so I didn't think I had to mention that.

If somebody wants to exult in claims of knowledge, I tend to let them do their own research.

4,047 posted on 09/12/2010 3:19:45 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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