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To: Mamzelle
I still don't accept that a vow of celibacy is necessarily also a vow of chastity.

It's irrelevant what you accept. The arbiter is Canon Law and in that there is no difference between a promise of celibacy or vow of chastity for those receiving Holy Orders in the Latin Rite.

43 posted on 01/09/2006 1:00:10 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: A.A. Cunningham
It's relevant to someone--maybe even someone who engages in politeness. The definitions are hardly beyond discussion, and we can agree to disagree and you can be disagreeable.

If those wanting to be specific about what a priest promises, and what he does not promise--it would be wise to use language that carries no nuance

44 posted on 01/09/2006 1:26:39 PM PST by Mamzelle
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