Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Logi, conosci l'inglese

cosa esattamente significa "flimsy" ?
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/sep/16/troubled-history-priests-sex-church/print
 
 
The troubled history of priests, sex and the church may be at a
turning point
 
The biblical foundation for a celibate priesthood is flimsy, and now
cracks are beginning to show in the Catholic church's ban on marriage
for those in holy orders
 
    sophia
        Sophia Deboick
 
guardian.co.uk
, Friday 16 September 2011 19.00 BST
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In a new autobiography published this week, Father Edward Daly, former
bishop of Derry and the handkerchief-waving priest of the famous
Bloody Sunday photograph, has called for an end to the celibacy rule
for Catholic priests. Pointing to the severe decline in numbers of
serving clergy (while the worldwide Catholic population has almost
doubled since 1970, the number of priests has remained virtually
static), Daly believes crisis could be averted by allowing priests to
marry. Many see clerical celibacy as fundamental to the church, but in
fact it is a religious tradition rather than a strict scriptural
prohibition, and it has been far from universally observed throughout
its history.
 
The biblical foundation for a celibate priesthood is flimsy. While
Saint Paul recommended celibacy, he thought anyone who cannot "contain
themselves" should marry, "for it is better to marry than to be
burnt" (1 Corinthians 7:9). Further, the Gospels spoke of apostles who
were married, with no hindrance to their ministry. But the model of
Christ's own celibacy (emulated by the priest acting "in persona
Christi") marked it out as a higher calling, and ultimately an
unmarried priest would be more committed to his religious duties, his
celibacy giving him the "power to attend upon the Lord, without
impediment" (1 Corinthians 7:35).
 
The first official attempt to impose celibacy on those in holy orders
was made at the Council of Elvira (c 306), and efforts to enforce it
followed throughout the middle ages. But how it played out in practice
varied enormously, and stories of married clergy and fornicating popes
abounded. Pope John XII was accused by a 10th-century synod of having
"fornicated with the widow of Rainier, with Stephana his father's
concubine, with the widow Anna, and with his own niece, and he made
the sacred palace into a whorehouse".
 
Unperturbed by such examples, the First and Second Lateran Councils in
the 12th century decreed that clerical marriages were invalid, but
Thomas Aquinas asserted a century later that this was not the decree
of God, but merely church law, reversible by papal or conciliar
authority. Indeed, in the middle ages the prohibition of marriage had
less to do with spiritual concerns than the conservation of church
property. Married priests meant legitimate heirs and the loss of
church assets through inheritances – something that couldn't be
countenanced.
 
The 16th-century Council of Trent confirmed the celibacy rule (just as
the Church of England was abolishing it), but it was only in the 20th
century that priestly celibacy, along with all matters of sexual
morality, became an obsession for the church hierarchy. Following the
reforms of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI issued the
encyclical Sacerdotalis Caelibatus, reaffirming the fundamental value
of celibacy as allowing "a closer and more complete relationship with
the mystery of Christ and the Church for the good of all mankind".
 
Yet the encyclical also permitted the possibility of married clergy
from other Christian traditions being ordained as Catholic priests,
and cracks began to show in the edifice. Although Pope Benedict
rejected the idea of married priests in 2006, he has since taken up
Paul VI's baton by allowing defecting married Anglican ministers to
enter the church.
 
The absolute prohibition on married Catholic priests has gone, and
with suggestions (of debatable credibility) of a link between the
church's child abuse crisis and celibacy, last year's plaintive call
for the abolition of the rule from Italian women romantically involved
with priests, and the proliferation of groups advocating a married
priesthood, a new chapter in the troubled history of priests, sex and
the church may be opening.


 
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 The biblical foundation for a celibate priesthood is flimsy
 
chissà a lui che gliene frega

 chiss a lui che gliene frega
 
intendi che la Bibbia e' roba tua?

 intendi che la Bibbia e' roba tua?
 
dopo un po' uno si stanca di discutere con una persona del tutto priva
di logica

 dopo un po' uno si stanca di discutere
 
se poi ha dei problemi ad interpretare...

 for those in holy orders
 
Direi che anche senza saperlo si deduce dal contesto della frase, cmq 
vuol dire fragile
 
 

 vuol dire fragile
 
si pregano i frequentatori occasionali del newsgroup di non rispondere
ai troll
 
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 ai troll
 
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 Logi: self hate in multitasking
 
che, notare, lui ha risposto.