Paired characters in LotR

[Gilnaur]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I have just read the article and all is said so much better there ........

"The meaning of life" has one sketch errrm.... concerning the Catholic opposition to contraception...

Oh I believe that body and soul should be complementary (and I am not Catholic either!!!! Well not Roman Catholic ...... Anglo-Catholic lapsed into un-belief would be closish...) I meant that from the examples given, you cannot have both Spiritual and Physical fulfilment ...that one type of fulfilment reduces the possibility of the other rather increases it..... And in the Catholic church, unlike Protestant ones, you cannot combine the priesthood with marriage and family .......

This belief out there that the priesthood is incompatible with marriage and family is false. The Eastern Rite Catholic Churches does ordain married men and there are married priests who were Protestant ministers who have converted and then ordained in the Latin rite. It is true for both the Eastern rite and Latin rite that priests cannot get married after being ordained but married men can get ordained.

The celibacy requirement in the Latin rite section of the Catholic Church is considered a discipline and not a dogma.

Note: The Eastern rite Catholic Church should not be confused with the Eastern Orthodox Church.