To the editors:
(1) I am one of those Roman Catholics who feel prompted by the Spirit in our insisting that the hour has arrived for the Vatican to permit married men to be received into Holy Orders. Our argument covers those who are to become diocesan priests. That is: we never include the vowed priest of the Jesuit, Dominican, Franciscan and all other male Orders or Congregations.
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The point is: for the psychically able who somehow know themselves called to this choice, there are only spiritual riches and health for themselves and for those they serve in whatever denomination.
This is the way the Pentagon copes with the whistle-blower. This is the way the Oval Office responds to bull’s-eye critics. The just released transcript of the balance of the Watergate tapes reads like a Mafia enforcement session.
My personal hunches aside, I find the mere possibility that this rumor might be reporting a fact to be so disturbing that I’m baffled why this grenade got lobbed at the third last paragraph.
Or so I see it.
