Capt McQuigg
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I personally think the very concept of a married man being a Deacon in the Catholic Church is a contradiction that can only end in ruin for the individual man. However, I think married deacons is a backdoor way for the novus ordo to allow priests to marry (the novus ordites dream of this but I don't think it would actually come to pass). A married man physically belongs to his wife and in her arms he will end up on a regular basis. But in the Traditional Catholic Church it's at the Subdeacon level that men make a vowel of celibacy (so, two levels later when they are ordained to the Holy Priesthood they have been celibate for a while). Everyone here knows this, but there may be one of two who don't.
However, my principal question is this:
Would a married deacon incur excommunication? Would he be in a state of mortal sin?
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| Posted Jul 11, 2012, 1:00 am |
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Sigismund
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The Eastern Churches have married deacons and priests aplenty, so I assume your are talking about married Latin rite priests. The real question here, I think, is this: Is the NO Church actually the Church? If it is (as I believe) then no one could be excommunicated for doing what the Church permits. If it is not, then there really isn't anyone around with jurisdiction to impose excommunication for anything. I suppose that if the 1917 Code says that if a married man is ordained a deacon he incurs excommunication, a trad case could be built for that, but I doubt that the 1917 Code addresses the question at all.
And before anyone asks, no, i do not think the discipline of celibacy for Latin rite priests should be changed.
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| Posted Jul 11, 2012, 4:32 am |
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