Sex and the Celibate Priest: Vatican Hedges Offer to Anglicans

When the Vatican announced that it would create a special Catholic haven for traditional Anglicans who are fed up with their own church's toleration of gay priests and women bishops, it was portrayed as an offer too good to pass up: Priests and bishops, pewsitters and parishes could all migrate to Rome without leaving behind their Reformation-era ...

[MiddleWay]

"Yet such speculations did not sit well with Pope Benedict XVI, who reportedly chafed at reports that the announcement signaled a shift in Roman tradition. So Cardinal William Levada, an American whom the pope named to succeed himself in the job of the Vatican's chief doctrinal guardian, issued a clarification that was something of a cold shower on the possibility of a married priesthood -- and hopes for large numbers of clergy converts from Anglicanism. In the clarification, Levada said that currently married Anglican or Episcopal priests (men only, of course) could be accepted on "a case by case basis," as has already been done for some 70-80 married clergy converts in the U.S. under a more narrow dispensation adopted in 1981. Levada allowed that Anglicans who are married and studying in seminary may also be allowed to be ordained. But he indicated that they would be "grandfathered" in, and after them, seminarians and priests in any Anglican rite province, or "ordinariate," within Catholicism "must submit to the norm of clerical celibacy."

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[Ye Olde Fart]

Why do they think that celibacy makes a man or a woman more holy than the non-celibate. It seems a mere tool of control and power to me.

[writewingproxyco ntin]

Sexually sick, authoritarian institutions attract sexually sick individuals, all other things being equal. And the laity, by and large, is way ahead of Pope Nosferatu and his closet case minions on social issues.

Tweet me when the RCC schism arrives. It's long overdue.

[RevKen]

writewingproxycontin wrote:

Sexually sick, authoritarian institutions attract sexually sick individuals, all other things being equal. And the laity, by and large, is way ahead of Pope Nosferatu and his closet case minions on social issues.
Tweet me when the RCC schism arrives. It's long overdue.

Hey, you know what? Katherine Jefferts-Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, out to thank the pope for his generous offer. Then, she should graciously and optimistically offer the same opportunity to RC priests, and, of course, to their congregations, also. She could just say,

"You Roman Catholic priests are, likewise, surely welcome to come and join The Episcopal Church, if you are so moved. We will recognize your ordinations. We will open our hearts and fully accept you. What's more, we will even allow you to get married if you want to - even, TO EACH OTHER!"

KGC

[Dan]

RevKen wrote:

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Hey, you know what? Katherine Jefferts-Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, out to thank the pope for his generous offer. Then, she should graciously and optimistically offer the same opportunity to RC priests, and, of course, to their congregations, also. She could just say,
"You Roman Catholic priests are, likewise, surely welcome to come and join The Episcopal Church, if you are so moved. We will recognize your ordinations. We will open our hearts and fully accept you. What's more, we will even allow you to get married if you want to - even, TO EACH OTHER!"
KGC

Why didn't she?

[Dan]

Ye Olde Fart wrote:

Why do they think that celibacy makes a man or a woman more holy than the non-celibate. It seems a mere tool of control and power to me.

I guess it would if you didn't understand why they do it.