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- From: lynch@ils.nwu.edu (Richard Lynch)
- Subject: Re: *Mother* MacDunaugh?! *FAINT*
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.021156.25931@ils.nwu.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov12.164932.25011@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Nov13.091322.4300@fys.ruu.nl> <1992Nov17.192410.2352@speedy.aero.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:11:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.192410.2352@speedy.aero.org> nadel@attatash.aero.org (Miriam Nadel) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.091322.4300@fys.ruu.nl> johnston@fys.ruu.nl (Helen Johnston) writes:
- >>In fact, I think it highly unlikely that the present Pope will ever
- >>allow women anywhere near the priesthood; he's likely to go for married
- >>(male) priests several aeons before he'll even think of women, no
- >>matter what the priest shortage.
- >
- >This is trivially true as there are already married male Catholic priests.
- >Usually as a result of a priest from another denomination (e.g. Eastern
- >Orthodox, Anglican, or one of the others the Catholic church accepts as
- >legitimate) converting to Roman Catholicism. They're not allowed to
- >remarry if their wife dies, but that's another matter.
- >
- >The trivia one picks up reading murder mysteries ...
-
- I believe that at least one branch of Catholicism got cut off by secular
- politics and diverged in this matter, and when re-connected, insisted on
- maintaining marriage for priests.
- I *know* that regardless of *how* it happened, it is true that some branches of
- Catholocism *can* marry, and are recognized as valid by Rome.
-
- --
- "TANSTAAFL" Rich lynch@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu
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