Irrational & confounding.I have great respect for Rev. Robert Barron but I suggest that he get real in regard to celibacy. If there are any people who are "over the top, irrational, confounding confounding when the effects of two, or more, processes on results cannot be separated, the results are said to be confounded, a cause of bias in disease studies. confounding factor to the reasonable people around them," it is the young couples who ask me to witness their marriage. These young folks come together and with a lot of cultural baggage The term cultural baggage refers to the tendency for one's culture to pervade thinking, speech, and behavior without one being aware of this pervasion. Cultural baggage becomes a factor when a person from one culture encounters a person from another, and unconscious , gather in churches Saturday after Saturday and pledge themselves to each other until death, and promise to raise their children according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the law of love in the sure and certain face of death. They marry a spouse who will leave them at death, and they create children who are doomed to die sooner or later. Many priests never have to suffer a broken heart or shed tears that don't dry, comforted with a nobility of purpose that denies death and the inevitable loss that are the essential realities of human love. Clerical celibacy Clerical celibacy is the practice of various religious traditions in which clergy, monastics and those (of either sex) in religious orders adopt a celibate life, refraining from marriage and sexual relationships, including masturbation and "impure thoughts" (such as sexual is at best a luxury, not a necessity. (REV.) CHARLES NIBLICK Dyer, Ind. |
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