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To: Freelance Warrior

They have broken their vows. They have repeatedly sinned and not only not repented but have bragged about their sins proclaimed them to the world. They have been a bad influence on young people. The have renounced and undermined church teaching.

They are not priests in the true sense of the world and should be defrocked and expelled from the priesthood.


45 posted on 02/01/2016 5:00:38 AM PST by detective
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To: detective
They have broken their vows. They have repeatedly sinned and not only not repented but have bragged about their sins proclaimed them to the world. They have been a bad influence on young people.

The have renounced

If you mean those who claim that practicing homosexuality is compliant with the catholic teaching, then yes. Those, who practice it secretly, don't.

They are not priests in the true sense of the world

What is the "true sense of the word"? I meant the sense from the Catholic Cathehism :

VII. The Effects of the Sacrament of Holy Orders
1582 As in the case of Baptism and Confirmation this share in Christ's office is granted once for all. the sacrament of Holy Orders, like the other two, confers an indelible spiritual character and cannot be repeated or conferred temporarily
1583 It is true that someone validly ordained can, for a just reason, be discharged from the obligations and functions linked to ordination, or can be forbidden to exercise them; but he cannot become a layman again in the strict sense,75 because the character imprinted by ordination is for ever. the vocation and mission received on the day of his ordination mark him permanently.
1584 Since it is ultimately Christ who acts and effects salvation through the ordained minister, the unworthiness of the latter does not prevent Christ from acting.76 St. Augustine states this forcefully: As for the proud minister, he is to be ranked with the devil. Christ's gift is not thereby profaned: what flows through him keeps its purity, and what passes through him remains dear and reaches the fertile earth.... the spiritual power of the sacrament is indeed comparable to light: those to be enlightened receive it in its purity, and if it should pass through defiled beings, it is not itself defiled.

55 posted on 02/01/2016 5:59:45 AM PST by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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