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Offline Thed0ctor

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can priests/bishops defend themselves with firearms?
« on: February 19, 2023, 12:50:43 PM »
I saw this article: https://www.dailywire.com/news/los-angeles-bishop-shot-and-killed-in-his-home?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=housefile&utm_content=member and it got me wondering whether bishops and priests can defend themselves with lethal force. I think it would be good for them to against a threat but I recall vaguely hearing something about it not being proper for the hands that consecrate the eucharist to be the same ones that take a life or something like that. Can't remember where I heard that.
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Offline Emile

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Re: can priests/bishops defend themselves with firearms?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2023, 01:11:54 PM »
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Offline Stubborn

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Re: can priests/bishops defend themselves with firearms?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2023, 01:47:20 PM »
Our Lord told the Apostles to buy a sword, which, apparently they already had 2 swords, Our Lord approved.....

Luke 22:34 And he said: I say to thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, till thou thrice deniest that thou knowest me. And he said to them: [35] When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, did you want anything?
[36] But they said: Nothing. Then said he unto them: But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip; and he that hath not, let him sell his coat, and buy a sword. [37] For I say to you, that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me: And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning me have an end. [38] But they said: Lord, behold here are two swords. And he said to them, It is enough... [50]And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
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Offline songbird

Re: can priests/bishops defend themselves with firearms?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2023, 01:55:45 PM »
As long as it is not liberated theology.
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Offline Marcellinus

Re: can priests/bishops defend themselves with firearms?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2023, 02:19:10 PM »
“Clerics shall entirely abstain from all those things that are indecent to their state; they shall not engage in indecorous arts; they shall abstain from gambling games with risks of money; they shall not carry arms, except when there is just cause for fearing; hunting should not be indulged, and [then] never with clamor; taverns and similar places should not be entered without necessity or another just cause approved by the local Ordinary.” - Canon 138, 1917 Code
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