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Here it is, the beginning of a New Year and we already have
a Catholic topic to discuss.
The headlines are such: EX-EPISCOPAL BISHOP TO GUIDE NEW
CATHOLICS and POPE TO U.S. ANGLICAN PRIESTS: JOIN US, KEEP YOUR JOB AND STAY
MARRIED.
The pope first revealed his plan when he visited Great
Britain last year and caused quite a stir when he appealed to British Anglicans
and especially priests, who were dissatisfied with their church’s ordination of
gays and women, to come on over to the Catholic side, where regressive and Dark
Age rules and beliefs, still hold sway over the way the Church operates.
The Anglicans / Episcopalians, as we all know, come from the
split between King Henry VIII and the pope at the time (1534) over a divorce
matter. The Catholic Church in England
The Episcopal Church in the US
The fact that these new priests will be married and many
with children is, I think, somewhat confusing to us simple people.
If the US
priesthood ranks are about to be inundated with 1,400 or so married priests,
what does it say about the Vatican
Why not allow former priests that left the priesthood to
marry, back into the fold?
Why even have a celibacy requirement in the face of the
rabid priestly pedophile scandal that occurred, in many minds, exactly because
of the celibacy rules that attracted pedophilic and homosexual men to the
priesthood.
It goes to show you that the Vatican
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