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Oct 1999
time: 21:32
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Originally posted by Heresson
Because love to some person distracts us from the path to God I guess. You should not love a person more than other. You should love all the people the same, as God loves us all the same. |
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f...on/724088/posts
This is an interesting post on the topic. It appears to claim that even from its earliest days, married men had to leave their wives. The author dismisses the legend that the topic was discussed at Nicea. The legend is that a cannon on priestly continence was not included over protest from the Egyptian delegation.
From the post, it appears there was a difference in practice between the Church in Western provinces and Eastern about whether married men had to leave their wives.
There is mention of a council of Trullo of the so-called "Eastern" Church that adopted a cannon allowing priest to marry, noting that this cannon was never accepted in the West.
The Catholic encylopedia entry for this Council http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04311b.htm angrily denounces, in polite language, the Council's imposing "Eastern Customs" on the Western Church on the issue of priests and their wives.
While a papal legate was apparently present, the Western Church says there was no evidence of his authority, and accepts only 50 or so of its 102 cannons.
All, this shows is that there was a long standing difference between the Eastern and Western churches on the issue of wives, this at a time when two branches of the Church had not split. It also demonstrates clearly and unambiguously that the matter of wives is a custom and practice and nothing more.
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of Aptos, CA
Oct 1999
time: 21:32
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Originally posted by Proteus_MST
I think Ratzingers only fault is that he is probably very conservative.
Aside from this I think he is intelligent and humble.
I donīt think that there will be much changes with him as pope, not for bad, but also not for good.
Probably he will follow the parth JP II has set.
Of course I have difficulties to see what the Prophecy of Malachias concerning him could mean 
De gloria oliviae.
Well, maybe he will fight for peace in the world (seeing the olive twig as a symbol for peace) |
Proteus, the thing about extremely intelligent people is that they are not afraid to lead. A lesser intellect would be afraid to challenge accepted dogma. I would be very surprised if Ratzinger did not do something we did not expect.
For one thing, I understand he is reviewing the Church's just war doctrine in light of Kosovo, Rawanda, the Sudan and Iraq. The latter conflict demostrates to some extent how the Church might have been wrong to oppose the war, because if you go through every item on the just-war checklist, the result should have been for the Vatican to approve of the war; but it did not. It appears that JP II simply took the Church's just war doctrine, multiplied by zero, and then added in the result he wanted because he was fundamentally opposed to all wars.
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