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To: reg45
Priests in the eastern church are allowed to marry and guess what, the eastern church (sometimes called orthodox) doesn’t have this problem.

I think you've got this backwards. Married men can be ordained to the priesthood, but single men, once ordained to the priesthood, cannot marry. There are some instances in the western Church where married men have been ordained, but they are typically men who were already married and had served as ministers in protestant churches.

64 posted on 09/02/2018 11:31:27 AM PDT by trad_anglican
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To: trad_anglican

of course single priests can marry all the pope has to do is change the rule back to the original one


67 posted on 09/02/2018 11:36:18 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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