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Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

I concur, Professor Powerpoint! Professor Smartboard was in essence correct in his assessment of my original comment regarding your platitude. Unfortunately none of us here have time to read all the background articles referred to but we do enjoy attacking platitudes. As I myself said to a colleague the other day, "Professor Snarf, we must have standards!"

All right people, don't read anything into my made-up names. They're just fun. As for mine--you what it is--fuhgeddaboudit.

Grendal · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:20 pm Post subject:

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:33 pm Post subject:

Oh! But her verbiage is fabutastic! She is indeed the "Sage of Tabuk"...that undiscovered "Diamond in the Dust"!

NCTBA

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

johnslat is now taking on the role of a Romish Priest ? I suspect that he might be quite good at "Priestcraft". Does he know about the expectations of CELIBACY ?

johnslat · Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:46 pm Post subject:

Dear scot47,

Well, actually, I was in the seminary for a few years, Maryknoll, after I got out of the Marines. I left when it became clear the the reforms proposed by John XXIII were not going to be implemented.

Celibacy? At 67 I'd be losing only about another twenty years of connubial bliss (I'm underestimating deliberately since it, as we know, is all inshallah,) but I suspect (and hope) that my dear wife would bar me from taking such a vow.

However, that's irrelevant anyway since all I'd have to do is convert to the Protestant Anglican Communion, become an Anglican priest first (they're allowed to marry,) and then "revert" to Catholicism.

"So in the early 1980s, Pope John Paul II created a "Pastoral Provision" in the Roman Rite that would allow married Anglican priests to be ordained as Roman Catholic priests and continue to practice their Anglican customs. This was essentially an experiment to see if married clergy (operating under an "Anglican Use" pastoral provision) would coexist well among a predominately celibate priesthood within the Roman Rite. The experiment proved to be a success, in that these married priests proved to be just as faithful and devoted as celibate priests within their limited capacity as married men."

Regards,
John