The Perils of Celibacy: Clerical Celibacy and Marriage in Early Protestant Perspective

Social Science Research Network ^ | John Witte Jr

[the_conscience]

I guess I shouldn't even bring that up, since you don't claim to be doing so.

Exactly. Most catholic Christians understand the difference.

[Petronski]

Most catholic Christians understand the difference.

Yes we do. There's the Catholic Church, and whoever it is you're talking about.

[the_conscience]

There's the Catholic Church, and whoever it is you're talking about.

I'm talking about the invisible Church.

[Petronski]

Oh...sola Cauvin.

So your little code "Romanists" means Calvinists?

Whatever you say.

[the_conscience]

Im thinking Augustine.

Do you have a problem with him?

[marajade]

In II tim it says what the biblical standard for elders is. And one of the first qualifiers is a husband of but one wife. Most Catholic priests can’t meet the first qualifier in the book of Timothy.