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

At 5:33 pm -0400 10/4/00, Padraic Brown wrote:
>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.
Yes, that's so.

>Also if I'm not mistaken, in Catholocism, if your spouse dies, you are
>then considered unmarried (i.e., free to marry).
Correct - but I'm fairly certain that someone who has been priested cannot
remarry after his wife has died.

>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.
Yes, that's true - tho strictly in Catholic eyes such people were never
ordained priest before.   This applies even to such men when ordained in
the Latin rite.  Some such priests certainly exist in Germany.  AFAIK no
married convert clergy have been priested according to the Latin rite in
the UK.

>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. :)
Depends what one means by 'priest'; the word translates both the Latin
'presbyter' (from which it is derived) and 'sacerdos'.  Some Protestant
clergy would be deeply offended at being called priests.

Ray.



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