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Priesthood (Catholic Church) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Essential Priesthood. Priests of the Catholic Church; are they legally priests, morally priests, both or neither . The qualifications for priesthood either have not been fully placed into canon law, in other directives of the Church, or are being ignored. ... The Essential Priesthood Legal and Moral...
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The Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood; ; (Selected Scriptures) ; John F. MacArthur, Jr. ... I am so used to getting up and saying "take out your Bible," but that wouldn't help, since the Catholic priesthood isn't found anywhere in scripture, so we can't start there.
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There are no priests in the NT church. ... The other key aspect of the Catholic priesthood, auricular confession, was not practiced in the Western church until after the seventh century. The apostles and elders in the early church did not hear confession, give absolution or prescribe penance for the remission of sins.
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Although the tradition of sons following their fathers into the ministry is well established in protestant denominations, the Catholic requirement for priests to be celibate rendered it impossible for centuries.
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"One is not ordained to priesthood and then sent out into thin air," said Phyllis Zagano, a senior research associate at Hofstra University and author of the book "Holy Saturday: An Argument for the Restoration of the Female Diaconate in the Catholic Church," about female deacons in the early church.
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Encyclical promulgated in 1935 by Pope Pius XI on Catholic Priesthood who are "ordained for men in the things that appertain to God." ... AD CATHOLICI SACERDOTII (On the Catholic Priesthood)
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