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From: djohnson@watdcsu.waterloo.edu ( DOUG JOHNSON - GEOGRAPHY )
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Scene at a Roman Catholic cathedral.
Summary: Semantics? Celibcy versus Chastity
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Date: 26 Aug 89 03:15:17 GMT
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Reply-To: djohnson@watdcsu.waterloo.edu ( DOUG JOHNSON - GEOGRAPHY )
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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It has been written:
>
>The Church has decreed that its priests are indeed morally superior to
>the common man, and are capable of such self control that they are
>expected to maintain the unnatural state of forced celibacy for the rest
>of their chuch careers.
>
Could someone in-the-know clarify this. 
Do RC priests vow to be celibate (i.e., not to marry) or do
they vow to be chaste (i.e., refrain from intercourse).

Or is it all or the above?

(I sure hope I've got my i.e.,'s right on this one (:-).

DJ