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A comedian extraordinaire, who is far underrated.
The folks at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre has created a brilliant skit that is really funny and drives home BP’s incompetence.
St. Peter, “The Rock of the Church” and Jesus’ handpicked successor on Earth was a married man. Most of the Apostles were also married. Pope Adrian II was one of many Popes to have been married. Prior to his reign there were many Popes, bishops, and priests who were married. In fact, at the time of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea priests had wives. The Council produced “the Creed” we recite in Mass and also produced guidelines where priests and bishops were not to seek sexual contact with their wives and the wives not to seek sexual contact with their priest husbands. As married priests died their property and wealth went not to the Church, but to the male heirs of the priests-a common practice. So, in 1018 Pope Benedict VII outlawed descendants of priests from inheritance of property. As time passed and wealth flowed a faction within the church decided to proclaim that celibacy was apostolic in origin. The Council of Trent in 1563 officially adopted celibacy for priests and it has remained unchanged since.
As a Catholic, I believe that priests are human first and vehicles of Christ second. Like we all are. Their vocation however is to serve humanity and promote the Word throughout Earth. For a priest to sacrifice a piece of their humanity-the human need for companionship and love is not what Christ desired for his church nor his apostles. The celibacy rules were created for economic wealth not for creation of spiritual wealth. Therefore personally I am against celibate priests. I applaud the women who have come out of the shadows.
Letter From Priests’ Lovers Reignites Celibacy Debate : NPR.
What an introduction! What a testimony to the power of Jesus Christ.
Have you ever wondered what some of the most popular abbreviations for company names we all know stand for? Well this article will tell you.
This young woman is an up & comer in the jazz world. I discovered her music late last year. This is her performance at The White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and Spoken Word in May, 2009.
If you are like me on Monday nights for the past 8 years you were glued to the Fox network’s show, 24. It was so deep for me that I screened calls during the show and I realized the week of the last episode that during that time there was only 3 persons I would actually answer my phone for during that hour. John Shore’s commentary pays homage to 24 and the main character Jack Bauer. This commentary is very unique because it draws parallels between Jack Bauer and all of us.