Re: [Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-06 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Lawrence Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Catholic Church has a very specific and very high-minded reason for wanting their priests to be celibate, and this reason has so far superceded the arguments in favor of married priests.Mario G ...and the Church is *never* wrong?

Re: [Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-06 Thread Lawrence Rodrigues
The Catholic Church has a very specific and very high-minded reason for wanting their priests to be celibate, and this reason has so far superceded the arguments in favor of married priests.Mario G ...and the Church is *never* wrong? Are not food, clothing, shelter, sex, the basic human

Re: [Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-05 Thread Mario Goveia
Valmiki, Since you digressed without meaning to, my opinion is that these pets are considered playthings for their owners. I am not a pet owner any more, and when I had pets I never had them sterilized. We have a famous Canadian vet on Goanet who is probably deeply involved in implementing the

Re: [Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-04 Thread Valmiki Faleiro
Without meaning to digress from the issue/s under debate, couldn't help wondering... Why do some people still get their pet canines and pigs castrated/sterilized? Isn't that cruel? VF --- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My bigger question is to ask why the Catholic Church is seemingly

Re: [Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-03 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Vivian D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forcing priests to live a celibate life, which I suspect many privately do not comply with, is inhuman. The natural human sexual urges cannot be suppresed forever. The results are quite obvious with all the news stories one hears these days

Re: [Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-03 Thread Mario Goveia
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My bigger question is to ask why the Catholic Church is seemingly secretive about the matter of married priests? Mario replies: Just because you did not know that married priests from other Christian denominations are allowed to stay married when they

Re: [Goanet] The married priest (I'm married to one)

2005-10-03 Thread cornel
: Viviana [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@goanet.org Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:19 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] The married priest (I'm married to one) Hello Cornel - I'm quite pleased to see this post - married Priesthood is near and dear to my heart! I'm

[Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-03 Thread Vivian D'Souza
Regarding Cornel's post. A few years ago I attended a wedding in the USA, and I too was very impressed by the sermon given by the priest, who was not so young. Something he said in his sermon made me inquire. Turned out that he indeed had been married and had 7 children. Then his wife

Re: [Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-03 Thread Bernado Colaco
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very recently, I attended, a Roman Catholic wedding ceremony in London. I have read of an other Catholic priest being married via the Anglican way. I guess those who feel the 'need' (there are plenty of them) should become anglican and then come back to

Re: [Goanet] The married priest (I'm married to one)

2005-10-02 Thread Viviana
Hello Cornel - I'm quite pleased to see this post - married Priesthood is near and dear to my heart! I'm married to a priest and I've known for probably 15 years, thanks to an article in Time magazine, that there are HUNDREDS of married RC priests in the US functioning with full Vatican

[Goanet] The married priest

2005-10-02 Thread cornel
Very recently, I attended, a Roman Catholic wedding ceremony in London. It was between the daughter of a close Managlorean friend and her English groom. At the church service, the English priest seemed remarkably humorous in his advice to the couple and he also seemed incredibly well informed