Author Topic: Divorced father becomes "Catholic" priest (Read 4183 times)

Zeitun · « **Reply #25 on:** July 02, 2013, 12:33:52 PM »

Quote from: Tiffany

If we were better off and there were convents that accept 40yo women, I would try to join one when my son reaches adult age. I don't think it's that weird that older people - especially converts want to be religious. If I had known about convents when I was 11, I would have been counting down the days until I could join one. I prayed almost all the time then until I was 13.

There's a Carmel in Northern California that will take older postulants.

http://www.motherofgodcarmel.org/docs/vocations.php

Zeitun · « **Reply #26 on:** July 02, 2013, 12:34:58 PM »

Quote from: SJB

The problem is the validity of the absolution if and when the grave sin is confessed. Excommunication is mean to be a deterrent to crime and the excommunication reserved to the Bishop isn't applicable if the censure was unknown. This isn't my opinion but the opinion of moral theologians.

I don't understand what this means.

SJB · « **Reply #27 on:** July 02, 2013, 08:51:32 PM »

Quote from: Zeitun

Quote from: SJB
The problem is the validity of the absolution if and when the grave sin is confessed. Excommunication is mean to be a deterrent to crime and the excommunication reserved to the Bishop isn't applicable if the censure was unknown. This isn't my opinion but the opinion of moral theologians.

I don't understand what this means.

If the excommunication is reserved, then special faculties are required for valid absolution.

Marlelar · « **Reply #28 on:** July 03, 2013, 12:26:51 AM »

Quote from: Tiffany

Doesn't that NO also have married deacons that they basically substitute for priests? I thought deacons should only be seminarians.

The NO has what they call Permanent Deacons. They are typically older (say 40+) married men. They can baptize and marry, I don't know if they can preach or bury. They cannot say "Mass". If a deacon's wife dies first he cannot remarry.

I saw one NO bulletin and the contact info for the "deacon" was actually listed as "The Deacon Couple" and had the wife's name included!!!

That is all I know about them.

Marsha

TKGS · « **Reply #29 on:** July 03, 2013, 08:38:19 AM »

Quote from: Marlelar

Quote from: Tiffany
Doesn't that NO also have married deacons that they basically substitute for priests? I thought deacons should only be seminarians.

The NO has what they call Permanent Deacons. They are typically older (say 40+) married men. They can baptize and marry, I don't know if they can preach or bury. They cannot say "Mass". If a deacon's wife dies first he cannot remarry.

I saw one NO bulletin and the contact info for the "deacon" was actually listed as "The Deacon Couple" and had the wife's name included!!!

That is all I know about them.

Marsha

The Novus Ordo "permanent" deacons can do all things the priest can do except say Mass, hear confessions, or give Extreme Unction (as if the priests are doing those things). They do indeed give the homily at the Novus Ordo, read the Gospel, and officiate at funerals (if there is no Novus Ordo service).

The restrictions on not marrying if the wife dies is no longer in effect in the Novus Ordo, which represents another absolute break from Apostolic tradition. In the archdiocese I am in, I have read of permanent deacons who have married after becoming a deacon, who have married after being widowed, and who have married after divorcing (and, of course, having the marriage "annulled" by the bishop).