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Monday, February 07, 2005 Marriage and RC PriestsThis in last Friday's news "Holy Orders - Australian priests have called on the Vatican to lift the ban on marriage within the Catholic clergy. Will they ever walk down the aisle? John Mangan reports."The article continues: Television viewers the world over reached for the tissues in their millions in 1983 when Richard Chamberlain's handsome Catholic Archbishop Ralph de Bricassart grappled with that age-old dilemma: should he put his love of God ahead of his love for a woman, or more specifically, should he go to the Vatican and become a cardinal or should he stay on tropical Matlock Island and make out with a nubile Rachel Ward? Rachel Ward? Shouldn't have thought there would have been any difficulty deciding that one! Strange lot, our RC colleagues. And Muriel Porter has her two-penneth worth (good for the Anglicans to be able to give somebody else advice, seeing as they rarely ever take their own): "Church will benefit if priests are able to marry - Celibacy is a rule that the Catholic Church can and should change." And there's one interesting snippet in all this, that we didn't know before: Intriguingly, in a nod to its married past, the (RC) church recognises one way you can be married and a priest - by marrying as an Anglican priest and then switching across. Generally a way around most things. And see how useful the Anglicans can be to their Catholic cousins! # posted by geoff @ 3:36 pm 0 comments
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