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MineralMan

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2. No doubt. However, the aging patriarchal leadership of the RCC
Tue Dec 18, 2018, 10:55 AM
Dec 2018

has no intention of EVER ordaining women, and probably not married men, either, except in rare cases where they become priests after serving as priests in other denominations.

The problem is called "tradition." Every last member of Catholic leadership is supposed to be a celibate, abstinent male. Every one of them. And so it has been for centuries. The power of such longstanding traditions makes it almost impossible to change such traditions. It's a self-defeating organization.

Do not look for such changes. They almost certainly will not occur.

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