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To: ThomasMore; history-matters
Many years ago, I went to a dinner party wher Richard Cardinal Cushing was also in attendance....he was a cousin of somebody else there.....at the time there was considerable discussion then in the media about allowing priests to marry.....it had arisen because two or three married Episcopal ministers had just been ordained as Catholic priests, and as you may be aware, they are allowed to remain married.....so the Cardinal was asked what he thought about the general idea of priests marrying.....I'll never forget, he took a large sip of wine, and looked out at us with the cherubic visage of his, and answered, or a sort..."but what would I do when they want to get divorced?"
20 posted on 04/23/2002 2:12:31 PM PDT by ken5050
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To: ken5050; history-matters
..."but what would I do when they want to get divorced?"

-- What did he do when his priests wanted to get divorced from the Church?
-- What did he do when his priests' behaved immorally?
-- What did he do with his practicing homosexual priests and their boyfriends?
-- What did he do with his embezzeling priests?
-- What did he do with the pedophile priests.

I suppose what any REAL bishop would do...DEFROCK them.

The problem isn't whether a priest is celibate or married...its' how he stands with the Lord. Its the condition of his soul...not his state in life.

24 posted on 04/24/2002 7:47:56 AM PDT by ThomasMore
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