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

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, BP Jonsson wrote:

>At 14:16 10.4.2000 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>
>>This can happen to Catholics too.  Cardinal Manning, e.g., was a
>>widower; he was married as an Anglican priest.
>
>Can an RC priest be married then, or must he become a widower first?
Yes. Those of rites in communion with Rome, obviously. ;) Byzantine
men, for example, can marry then be ordained. If I remember right,
they can't then become bishops. Once ordained, he can't then marry.
Also if I'm not mistaken, in Catholocism, if your spouse dies, you are
then considered unmarried (i.e., free to marry).

Also, married priests of at least some other Christian religions can
convert to RC, be reordained and remain married. I can ask for
clarification, but I'm pretty sure such can exist.

Of course, none of this applies to women priests of any sort.

>BTW: are the Scandinavian Lutheran churches the only Protestant churches
>who still have *priests*?
I call em all priests; but then again, I'm not Lutheran. :)

Padraic.

>/BP