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26 women in affairs with priests plead to Pope Francis to end Catholic Church's celibacy vow
NY Daily News ^ | May 18, 2014 | David Harding

Posted on 05/19/2014 5:58:54 PM PDT by Gamecock

A group of 26 Italian women - all claiming to be in affairs with priests - have written to Pope Francis pleading with him to end the Catholic Church's celibacy vow.

The women said that there were many more like them who were "living in silence."

"We love these men, they love us, and in most cases, despite all efforts to renounce it, one cannot manage to give up such a solid and beautiful bond," they wrote in a joint letter.

They added that "very little is known about the devastating suffering of a woman who is deeply in love with a priest".

The women met through Facebook, reports the Telegraph.

Some 6,000 former priests in Italy have left the church so they can marry.

Pope Francis, who had a girlfriend as a young man in Argentina, has previously said he favored maintaining celibacy, but claimed it was more church tradition than dogma.


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To: Gamecock

Still no interesting explanation of 1 Corinthians 7?


81 posted on 05/20/2014 12:57:25 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
It's a long passage. What part in particular is so fascinating to you?
82 posted on 05/20/2014 1:03:08 PM PDT by Gamecock (#BringTheAdultsBackToDC)
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To: Gamecock

Every word of sacred scripture is fascinating to me.


83 posted on 05/20/2014 1:07:25 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd; Alex Murphy

Good to know. If that’s the case you’ll be a Calvinist in no time!


84 posted on 05/20/2014 1:15:31 PM PDT by Gamecock (#BringTheAdultsBackToDC)
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To: Gamecock
Fortunately that does not follow.

In the meantime, 1 Corinthians 7 clearly states that its better to remain unmarried if you can bear it. Which really flies in the face of the Protestant argument in favor of the exact opposite, wouldn't you agree?

85 posted on 05/20/2014 1:21:01 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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To: Gamecock

What does the claim matter? Again, I fail to see your point. Are you saying I should not comment because it really doesn’t concern me how Catholics choose to live their lives? Or what the Catholic church teaches and believes?

that’s nonsense, but even if it wasn’t, where’s the funin that?

So, if you do not mind, please tell me your objection to my post, because I truly do not understand it.


86 posted on 05/20/2014 1:34:43 PM PDT by chesley
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To: Gamecock

Read the gospels. You are in for a surprise.


87 posted on 05/20/2014 3:39:55 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Gamecock

And if you don’t take Jesus seriously, read St. Paul.


88 posted on 05/20/2014 3:40:58 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
Choosing virginity is recommended by Christ Himself.

Where? Chapter and verse please....

89 posted on 05/20/2014 3:45:58 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Choosing virginity is recommended by Christ Himself.

The same Christ who said that it wasn't good for man to be alone and told mankind to be fruitful and multiply?

When did He change His mind?

If being single wasn't good for man when he was perfect and in the garden, why is it now good after man fell?

90 posted on 05/20/2014 3:47:44 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Exactly.


91 posted on 05/20/2014 3:50:30 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom
Unless you think Paul contradicted God in 1 Corinthians 7 and thus that Paul was not divinely inspired, then being single is a higher calling.

"If being single wasn't good for man when he was perfect and in the garden, why is it now good after man fell?"

Indeed. And why was it ok for people to run around naked before the fall and not after? And why did people not have to work before the fall but they do after?

Lets all be stark naked layabouts so we can pretend we lve in the garden of Eden. Thats the ticket.

92 posted on 05/20/2014 4:20:33 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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To: metmom

That was God in Genesis who said that it was not good for man to be alone.

Christ, in the gospels, and St. Paul, recommend virginity.


93 posted on 05/21/2014 3:13:22 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: metmom

Read the gospels.


94 posted on 05/21/2014 3:14:19 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan

Provide the chapter and verse.

Don’t make a claim and then tell me to defend your point.

I don’t agree with it and have no idea which sayings of Jesus Catholics misinterpret to justify their teaching.


95 posted on 05/21/2014 4:29:41 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: Arthur McGowan
That was God in Genesis who said that it was not good for man to be alone.

Christ, in the gospels, and St. Paul, recommend virginity.

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Congratulations. You just defended modalism.

96 posted on 05/21/2014 5:18:41 AM PDT by Gamecock (#BringTheAdultsBackToDC)
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To: metmom

God’s word, through Paul, in 1 Corinthians 7. FRotestants on this thread simply will not address this...Why, I’d like to know?


97 posted on 05/21/2014 9:22:10 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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To: Gamecock

Ha ha.

So Christ was a Modalist when he says in the Sermon on the Mount: “You have heard it said...But I say to you...”?

Genesis is telling us about the natural order. Marriage is part of the natural order. When Jesus and St. Paul recommend virginity, they do so explicitly for the sake of the Kingdon—the order of grace.


98 posted on 05/21/2014 10:48:18 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan

No.
And I am still waiting for Scriptural reference to you virgin claim, as if that meant in marriage anyway.


99 posted on 05/21/2014 11:18:24 AM PDT by Gamecock (#BringTheAdultsBackToDC)
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To: Gamecock

And I’m still waiting for some FRotestant, any FRotestant, to try and explain away 1 Corinthians 7.


100 posted on 05/21/2014 11:52:40 AM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Pope Calvin the 1st, defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades)
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