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They had a blessed family, with six children plus several orphans—heartwarming, described as “affectionate, loving, fruitful, faithful, and enduring.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is obvious to any observer that the perpetual Catholic policy of celibacy for priests and nuns persisting today is a perfect storm (tornado, hurricane, wildfire), waiting to happen—not waiting—happening like tsunamis all over the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It should be obvious to Catholic leaders that change of policy on celibacy is the only Biblical solution, the only common sense solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is it too much to sacrifice this huge 2000 year Catholic edifice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is it easier for Catholic leadership to sacrifice more thousands of child victims of abuse at the hands of those burning with passion, enduring the manmade mandate against Biblical release only in Godly marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Catholics, get a reality check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s time for the fear of God to shake the church—fear greater than the fear of losing power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Whoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe in Me to fall, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MARTIN LUTHER AND HIS WIFE KATHARINA—LESSONS FOR CATHOLICS—500 YEARS AGO AND TODAY Martin and Katharina married in 1525, eight years after the beginning of the Reformation. He was a Catholic priest (excommunicated in 1521), and she was a Catholic nun (escaped from a convent with eleven other nuns, like a prison breakout, masterminded by Luther […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,3,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-family","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5380,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions\/5380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}