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To: Mrs. Don-o

Plus we have married deacons.


14 posted on 03/08/2018 4:00:24 PM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5W)
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To: Biggirl
Exactly.

When Bp Samuel Ruiz was Bishop in, I think, Chiapas (part of Mexico with a whole lot of extremely poor non-Spanish-speaking indigenous Indians) he was ordaining hundreds of deacons. His aim was to ordain practically all of his married-man catechists. The Vatican at that time told him to cool it.

But --- not that I'm an expert on church-growing --- I really thought having a lot of married deacons was the way to go in that church-neglected, sacrament-starved area where people hardly ever saw a priest, maybe twice a year or something.

At least the deacons could catechise, baptize, marry, and bury them in consecrated ground. \

16 posted on 03/08/2018 4:20:15 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Actually, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart." - DJT)
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To: Biggirl
Plus we have married deacons.

Only since the Second Vatican Council re-introduced it to the detriment of the priesthood.

17 posted on 03/08/2018 5:14:54 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Romett)
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