Eric Christopherson
> At 04:45 PM 4/10/2000 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> >BP Jonsson wrote:
> > > 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).
>
> What is this meaning of "rite?" I assume it refers to an approved group of
> practices and not one specific ritual.
Your assumption is right (at least with the Spanish cognate _rito_ which
means both _ritual_ and approved group of practices).
-- Carlos Th