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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Jesus and St. Paul commend celibacy.

Commend ≠ demand.

Show us where Jesus said that and where Paul demands it.

The Church doesn't force anyone to be celibate. It's a choice men make when they enter the priesthood.

That's nonsense. It's forced on those who enter the priesthood single and if they want to become married they have to leave the priesthood. Saw it in my own family.

Celibacy is a discipline, not a dogma.

Then why not let the men themselves choose whether they want to be single or married priests?

And some married Anglican converts to Roman Rite Catholicism have been allowed to enter the Catholic priesthood.

Then why not let all men be married? Clearly the Catholic church seems to think that they can do their jobs while married or they wouldn't ordain them, so that argument against marriage fails.

101 posted on 07/13/2014 2:23:09 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
Show us where Jesus said that and where Paul demands it.

Seriously?

103 posted on 07/13/2014 2:27:18 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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