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Leading Catholic: Let priests have sex
TheLocal.de ^ | 23 Nov 12 09:19 CET | (The Local/bk)

Posted on 11/23/2012 7:18:25 PM PST by Olog-hai

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1 posted on 11/23/2012 7:18:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Isn’t that a matter between the priest and the church isn’t it? The reasons those who want to change the rules use in the arguments are totally bogus of course.


2 posted on 11/23/2012 7:20:56 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Olog-hai
1 Timothy 4 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

And decreeing "oh, you can marry, but then we won't let you serve God beyond this line" is still forbidding marriage.

3 posted on 11/23/2012 7:23:58 PM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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1 Timothy 4 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.

And decreeing "oh, you can marry, but then we won't let you serve God beyond this line" is still forbidding marriage.

4 posted on 11/23/2012 7:23:58 PM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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Look up ‘Manichee’. Here’s a nickel - buy yourself an education.


5 posted on 11/23/2012 7:26:33 PM PST by JCBreckenridge (They may take our lives... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!)
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To: Olog-hai

Form your own church then.


6 posted on 11/23/2012 7:27:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Labor unions are the Communist Party of the USA.)
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Even though vocations are low in many western countries. The reason for few ordinations is not due to the issue of celibacy.

The issue is rather fathers, mothers, and pastors who don’t seriously suggest to young unmarried men that they might have a vocation.

It is actually a duty of Catholics to recognize when someone could make a good priest, and tell him.


7 posted on 11/23/2012 7:29:16 PM PST by Bayard
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Why not? They have been turning a blind eye to priests having sex with boys for decades.


8 posted on 11/23/2012 7:30:18 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Why is the government more concerned about protecting a microbe on Mars than an unborn baby here?)
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Who says they are not already having sex.... most of them...
Nuns too...


9 posted on 11/23/2012 7:31:39 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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1st Corinthians 7:9.

I'm ok with single, celibate, and sane. Best (and least dramatic) decade of my life.

/johnny

10 posted on 11/23/2012 7:38:52 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Olog-hai

Catholic priests can be married in the eastern Catholic Churches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches#Clerical_celibacy


11 posted on 11/23/2012 7:39:02 PM PST by FewsOrange
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What is “the Central Committee for Catholics”? The article calls it a “lay organization,” but does not explain further.

It sounds curiously similar to the Central Committee of any Communist state.


12 posted on 11/23/2012 7:52:29 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Olog-hai

...and then the Rabi says, “It sure beats a ham sandwich, doesn’t it?”


13 posted on 11/23/2012 8:18:30 PM PST by null and void (America - Abducted by Aliens...)
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To: Olog-hai

Never heard of this guy in my life. Title is misleading, if not dishonest.


14 posted on 11/23/2012 8:46:19 PM PST by mgist
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Why not? They have been turning a blind eye to priests having sex with boys for decades.

first of all, your statement is both asinine and incorrect.

the incedence of child molestation is FAR greater in the protestant denominations, scouts, and public schools than in the Catholic church.

while it certainly was not handled well in the church, they have certainly made great strides to overcome the problem.

Also, it was basically homosexuality, not child molestation, that plagued the church...chicken hawks!!

15 posted on 11/23/2012 8:47:32 PM PST by terycarl
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To: Olog-hai

Never heard of this guy in my life. Title is misleading, if not dishonest.


16 posted on 11/23/2012 8:48:04 PM PST by mgist
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To: hosepipe
Who says they are not already having sex.... most of them... Nuns too...

some of us have morals and standards....some of you can't understand that!!

17 posted on 11/23/2012 8:52:35 PM PST by terycarl
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To: Olog-hai

“Let priests have sex”? Given the number of homosexuals in the priestly ranks it would seem they do already.
And with a long history of concubinage they always have.


18 posted on 11/23/2012 8:59:06 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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“Let priests have sex”? Given the number of homosexuals in the priestly ranks it would seem they do already.
And with a long history of concubinage they always have.


19 posted on 11/23/2012 9:05:49 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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There are lots of married African priests and bishops. The church just looks the other way.


20 posted on 11/23/2012 9:11:26 PM PST by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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