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.
Still no interesting explanation of 1 Corinthians 7?
Every word of sacred scripture is fascinating to me.
Good to know. If that’s the case you’ll be a Calvinist in no time!
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?
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.
Read the gospels. You are in for a surprise.
And if you don’t take Jesus seriously, read St. Paul.
Where? Chapter and verse please....
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?
Exactly.
"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.
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.
Read the gospels.
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.
Christ, in the gospels, and St. Paul, recommend virginity.
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Congratulations. You just defended modalism.
God’s word, through Paul, in 1 Corinthians 7. FRotestants on this thread simply will not address this...Why, I’d like to know?
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.
No.
And I am still waiting for Scriptural reference to you virgin claim, as if that meant in marriage anyway.
And I’m still waiting for some FRotestant, any FRotestant, to try and explain away 1 Corinthians 7.
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