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

BP Jonsson 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?
No, in the Roman Church (or at least the Latin rite thereof, excluding
all Uniates), priests must be unmarried.  Manning converted from Anglicanism
to Rome after his wife's death (but not for that reason).

> BTW: are the Scandinavian Lutheran churches the only Protestant churches
> who still have *priests*?
Some Anglicans use the term.  Anglicans come in a continuum from High, who
are as Roman as they can be without actually agreeing with the Pope, to Low,
who are Evangelical Protestants of deepest dye.  :-)  Of course, some languages
may not make clear distinctions between "priests" as such and other kinds
of god-persons.

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