
The Spousal Meaning of the Body and Chastity in Christian States of Life | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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Celibacy Is a Promise for the Diocesan Priesthood
For diocesan priest celibacy is a promise that they make so that they might be ordained. Pope Benedict the 16th, following John Paul the 2nd, always said he could not see a way to allow a married presbyterate. Precisely because the causal meaning of the body moves towards the originalmeaning of the body.
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