Priestly celibacy is a doctrine

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And I gave you a teaching from the Catholicism website, which speaks of discipline as another category of teaching.
 
http://catholicism.org/ is a website run by a subgroup of the The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary located in Richmond, MA - who suffers from the heresy of “feeneyism”


They are not in full communion with the Church. They are on the path to full reconciliation and working with the local bishop, but they are not in full communion (unlike the The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary located in Still River, MA.)

Therefore, you need to take what you read there with a grain of salt.

God bless
 
Seeing as you quoted my post in the OP I want to ask?

Literally every poster (I could have missed 1) on here is disagreeing with you. And a priest liked a few of them.

Do you still stand by your statement? I am not sure if you expected agreement by posting this in the first place but you didn’t receive any? So are you still wholeheartedly attached to this?

Regards
 
I tried doing a ctrl-f, but it doesn’t quite work right—

Did the OP ever read their Baltimore Catechism when they were little? 🙂

It sez, “A doctrine of faith or morals is a truth revealed by God dealing with what we must believe or what we must do in order to be saved.”

So-- the key isn’t “needs to be taught (possibly because we can’t figure it out on our own?)” but, the key is “must believe/must do for salvation”.

Otherwise, all of our K-12 education is doctrine… being taught math, how to spell, how to read, how to play tetherball… We can be “indoctrinated” in terms of “taught how to think”, but that’s a different usage of the word than the Church uses, just like a how there are secular ideas about how to use/define the word “mystic” or “adore” or “Confession”/“confess”, or “grace”, or “witness”, or whatever, in ordinary conversation, versus how a Catholic might be more likely to use those words.

I liked your link, Jaaye. Very helpful. 🙂
 
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A teaching is a teaching. Whether it be discipline or moral or whatever.

Is It a Doctrine or a Discipline? | Catholic Answers


Jul 1, 2008 - Our Sunday Visitor’s Catholic Encyclopedia defines “discipline” as an “instruction, system of teaching or of law, given under the authority of the Church [which] can be changed with the approval of proper authority, as opposed to doctrine, which is unchangeable” (334). Discipline, then, is man-made and can …

Nuff said. I’m out of here.
 
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In other words, the Catechism calls priestly celibacy a discipline. But does not say it is not a doctrine.
It also does not say it is an idea invented by druids during their 2nd full moon harvest festival during the great famine.

I am sure you would agree we shouldn’t investigate the possibility it could have been?
 
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