Re: Uniates and sacraments (was: Brithenig/Aelyan North America)

Irina Rempt wrote:

> > No.  As in the Orthodox church, a priest must be the husband of one wife,
> > which is interpreted to mean "no remarriage".
>
> In fact in the Orthodox Church priests aren't allowed to marry,
Right.  Sorry, I meant:

        As in the Orthodox church, the formula "a priest must be the
        husband of one wife" is applied, but in the Kemrese church
        this is interpreted to mean "no remarriage".

> A married priest who is widowed may not marry again, obviously, but
> he may enter a monastery if he wants to because he's now unmarried.
> There's a bishop in Serbia whose son is also a bishop: the father is
> a widower, the son never married.
This can happen to Catholics too.  Cardinal Manning, e.g., was a
widower; he was married as an Anglican priest.

> In the Orthodox Church the spouses give the sacrament of marriage to
> one another. The priest doesn't bestow it, he only witnesses it.
That is also the Roman view: the spouses are the ministers of the
sacrament.

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