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...fundamental question: Is a married priest really a Catholic priest? The Vatican says absolutely not, but Haggett disagrees, citing Canon law. "Catholic doctrine says once you?re a priest, you?re always a priest," she says. "Once you?re ordained, you never stop being a priest. It?s something no one ever tells priests once they?ve decided to get married." Her conviction is based on a reading of Canon 290: "Sacred ordination once validly received never becomes invalid. A cleric, however, loses the clerical state." In other words, Haggett believes a priest who marries may no longer...
...Catholic Church, you must have your first marriage annulled, or wiped away, as if it never happened. That can be personally wrenching, particularly if the first marriage resulted in children. With Rentapriest, you get the same familiar language, the same comforting ritual, minus the formal sanction of the Vatican. For some, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks, says Haggett. "We?ve been told that for many people it?s more important to be married by someone who has been anointed by God, rather than by a justice of the peace," she says. "This way, people can have the religious ceremony...
...While Sister Walsh and the Vatican are not at all pleased with the goings on at rentapriest.com, not everyone in the Church shares their point of view. Louise Haggett remembers the time she shared a ride from the airport with a bishop. She couldn?t resist posing an ostensibly rhetorical question. "What would you do," Haggett began, "if we put a married priest in your parish?" The bishop replied gravely, "Well, I?d have to put an end to it, I suppose." Haggett pressed on. "But what if no one complained?" she asked. The bishop paused before answering sotto voce...
...core, this - and the Vatican, the Freemasons and Steve Carlton all agree with me on this one- is about the future of our planet. Think Bush?s relentless view of a long-term energy crunch and his tolerance of Big Coal as a viably clean energy source are a coincidence? The man?s planning for an America so hot we?ll be running air conditioners during Christmas dinner...
...hopes that the Vatican might open its long-secret archives to those researching Pope Pius XII's role in World War II and the Holocaust vanished last week--perhaps for years to come. A church-initiated joint Catholic-Jewish historical committee disbanded after receiving a letter from Walter Cardinal Kasper, president of the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, saying that access to the archives was not possible "for technical reasons." The real reason, however, was probably anger. The committee, formed in 1999, was officially charged with reviewing 11 volumes culled from the archives between...