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To: NYer
ordained deacon, priest, and bishop,

Hmmm ...

Problem here is we don't consecrate married men as bishops.

Otherwise, I'd kindly offer my services ...

Not sure if the world is ready for Pope Bustard, anyway.

6 posted on 02/14/2013 2:39:23 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Married men were bishops, as Peters points out, in the early centuries, but had to abstain from marital relations. Perhaps that would rule you out.

The discipline today is mandatory unmarriedness (celibacy) but continence within marriage is the older discipline and it could be appealed to as precedent.

But it won’t. Would send the wrong signals to the “if only we had married priests” crowd.


15 posted on 02/14/2013 3:33:22 PM PST by Houghton M.
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