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To: tvn

Look, just because is guy is married doesn't mean that he will be able to do a better job counseling a wife and husband having difficulty in their marriage.

But the ability for Catholic priests to marry couldn't hurt recruitment in America. My God, I think they are something like 29-thousand parish priests in all of the US, and only 300 or 400 of them are UNDER the age of 30.

Some day, I am certain, Catholic priests will be allowed to marry. But not soon.


10 posted on 01/26/2005 9:00:07 AM PST by RexBeach
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To: RexBeach

This has nothing to do with recruitment and nothing to do with "understanding married couples" in your parish...

Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body demonstrates that it is possible for a celibate man to understand human sexuality more than married people themselves as all truths of the human condition are based upon objective Truths, not subjective experience.


17 posted on 01/26/2005 9:06:35 AM PST by mike182d
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To: RexBeach

bump


114 posted on 01/26/2005 11:44:24 AM PST by meema
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