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To: Boogieman
" If the holiness of the priest doesn’t matter, then why are people warned against seeking absolution from defrocked priests? "

Sacraments administered by "defrocked" Catholic deacons, priests and bishops remain valid because upon ordination such priests remain priests for ever in the order of Melchizedek. However, It would be illicit. A priest who has been laicized or suspended or excommunicated is not to say Mass, but their Masses are still considered valid.

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335 posted on 04/06/2013 12:04:04 AM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law

Well, we are all priests of the order of Melchizedeck, by the ordination pronounced by Christ upon us all collectively. So, by that reasoning, I could administer the sacraments. Yet I don’t see that attitude reflected in the Catholic catechism.


351 posted on 04/06/2013 8:52:02 AM PDT by Boogieman
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