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Happening in my local diocese, assuming all goes as planned.
Happening in my local diocese, assuming all goes as planned.
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How often does this happen: Episcopal priest to become Catholic Priest
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I heard about this in Catholic high school. Yes, some Roman Catholic priests get around the celibacy requirement by becoming an Episcopal priest, getting married, and converting to Roman Catholicism. The Roman Catholic church will allow them to join the priesthood and stay married.
the celibacy requirement is the single dumbest thing the Catholic Church has. Is there any precedent for this in the Bible? ... Nope.
Well, I take that back, the single dumbest thing the Catholic Church does is militantly oppose birth control (not abortions ... birth control). And they wonder why attendance has declined dramatically over the past few decades. And all signs point towards having an even MORE fundamentalist Pope when JP finally kicks the bucket. Talk about being stuck in the past ....
Well, I take that back, the single dumbest thing the Catholic Church does is militantly oppose birth control (not abortions ... birth control). And they wonder why attendance has declined dramatically over the past few decades. And all signs point towards having an even MORE fundamentalist Pope when JP finally kicks the bucket. Talk about being stuck in the past ....
I was raised catholic... was lucky enough to go to private school. I think the celibacy thing has remained enacted because the vatican calls upon homosexuals to become priests. This is because of the celibacy clause.
I'm not religious at all really... it's my mom who is. I even went through all of the confirmation and what not because I knew it'd make her happy. She had me reading all these books about the church and what not.
I'm not religious at all really... it's my mom who is. I even went through all of the confirmation and what not because I knew it'd make her happy. She had me reading all these books about the church and what not.
Haha, I only ever had two nuns as teachers and they are probably two of the coolest people I've ever met. Sometimes I see them when the family's dragged to church. Oddly enough, the one person I remember ever having a ruler and smacking desks with it was some non-nun they had teaching.
Catholic school alums: Is it true that attending those types of schools can twist people because of the strictness? I've been curious about this for years (I wnt 2 teh publik skul) and I used to know complete psycho badasses in school that attended Catholic schools when they were kids.
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Yeah, are they any different? My guess would be that they are pretty much the same. Then again, my mom's friend's son was caught drinking and driving underage. :/belgurdo said:
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Nerevar said:
IAWTP. Even though there is kind of a precedent in the Bible with the Onan thing, opposing birth control is ludicrous.
I went to a Catholic grammar school. There were a lot of bad kids, but a lot of them were sent in because they already were complete psycho badasses to begin with. The strictness could have made them worse though.
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Like I said: Jesuits. The priests at my old high school loved me; those vicious, evil nuns were the ones that had it in for me. I actually enjoy the company of Jesuits. They're pretty much the beatniks of the Church, and they typically aren't afraid to stray from doctrine. I enjoyed them so much that I later went on to chose a Jesuit university, despite not being religious at all. One of my fondest college memories is comprised of the priest that taught me poetry lying to a bartender so I could get served. Good times.
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Jesus was getting some of Mary's nectar 
The logic of a celibant, male-only clergy is that Jesus' apostles were all men and celibant, and the priesthood is the extension of the line of apostles. Even when I was a Catholic I thought the logic was absurd. All the apostles were Jews, so should only Jews be allowed to be priests?
Not really. I went to two catholic schools (elementary and high school) and none of them were all that strict, except about the dress code.belgurdo said:
One was run by nuns, which i didn't know until way later when my parents told me. None of them wore their pengiun suits and I had 4 of them as teachers. The other was taught by Augustinians, and would frequently see monks in their robes walking around campus, along with priests. All of them were very nice, except in detention (i got them because i was always tardy). The regular teachers in charge would let me out early, while the monks or nuns would make me stay the entire time either writing "I will come to class early" or go out to clean the campus.
I knew some psycho kids though. One of them especially stood out because he only lasted one year before being kicked out. He'd steal objects from school all the time, he'd put white board cleaning sprays into teacher's drinks when they weren't looking (all of them found out before taking a drink), and the thing that had him kicked out was during summer school, he took the campus cat and threw it at the teacher's face.
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