Priests responding to survey favor celibacy discussion
Quote:A national survey of Catholic priests conducted by two church reform groups found that two-thirds of priests favor an open discussion of the mandatory celibacy rule for diocesan priests.Call to...
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. . . so it would seem. But, Rome worships it's traditions and will go to an optional celibacy kicking and screaming. When everyone agrees, somebody is not thinking. --Gen. George S. Patton
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Quote:Fresh out of seminary, I moved to a tiny two-church town of 700 to serve the Protestant congregation. Father Richard was the priest for the Roman Catholic church across the bridge. We were both...
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Quote:St. Ambrose (340-397) wrote, The ministerial office must be kept pure and unspoiled and must not be defiled by coitus,
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Quote:Quote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------St. Ambrose (340-397) wrote, The ministerial office must be kept pure and unspoiled and must not be defiled...
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Of course.Levitating, bilocating, stigmatics, and mystics are HUGE in the Roman Catholic pantheon of demi-gods.The weirder you are, it seems, the more likely you are to be sainted. AND ... if you can...
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Quote:Just a recreation of the Roman house god phenomena.Can't you stick to the topic of the thread? - Ray -
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Quote:Pope John Paul II yesterday called for a national day of prayer to reverse a stark decline in the number of U.S. priests, an idea some Catholics called an ironic example of his failure to...
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Do I understand the article correctly, i.e., the pope should realize God wants the laity to take a much bigger part in the church, even saying the mass , etc.?
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N1:I believe that deacons and lay people will do just about everything except the Mass.Priests might be assigned to several parishes. . . sorta like the Methodist circuit preachers. When everyone...
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Makes me wonder.What will the RCC be like when it is run by "everyone."
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Quote:The debate over celibacy in the priesthood often centers on whether allowing priests to marry will stop pedophiles from entering the priesthood.It won't. But it would help solve part of the...
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Quote:With their numbers in radical decline, Australia's Catholic Priests are urging the Vatican to overturn its ban on married clergy. The National Council of Priests has written to Rome urging it to...
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We see priests who agree with marriage and priests who disagree. Other christians allow their clergy to choose and many remain celibate out of choice. So surely they should allow the clergy to choose...
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Quote:Other christians allow their clergy to choose and many remain celibate out of choice. teresas1979:The question of an optional celibacy priesthood is layered like an onion: there are several...
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Quote:Canon Lawyer Jennifer Haselberger recently chose CITI Ministries and Rent A Priest for her doctoral thesis at Leuven University in Belgium. She concluded that the faithful have the right to...
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Why not just let them marry?I believe its because the homosexuals that run the Novus Ordo Roman rite, dont want to give up their influence. They know the laity will run to the normal married guy's...
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Quote:Allow married people to become priests and nuns. It will reduce the number of kooks that run to the cloth in the vain attempt to hide and quell their inner demons and secret fantasies.By...
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Quote:Would the Catholic Church have greater credibility today if it had allowed priests to marry and women to be ordained?Oh, yes. I don't think there is any doubt about that anymore. This is a good...
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Quote:Archbishop Mbewe who served as a Roman Catholic priest for over 17 years said the problem of mandatory and compulsory celibacy for priests in the Roman Catholic Church was crucial.He said...
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You also seems to be ignorant of the range of difficulties that mandatory celibacy causes our clergy (not just sexual). A number of wonderful books have been referred to in these blogs, and I refer...
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