PF as YA

Jerry Friedman · 20 Apr 2009, 21:33 · from 2009-April.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:33:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) PF as YA
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--- On Mon, 4/20/09, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
...

> The relevant question here -- and it's one which I
> don't know the
> answer to -- is,
> "what if a widower becomes a priest and it turns out
> his wife isn't dead after
> all?" My guess is that this would become an exception,
> because neither the
> sacrament of matrimony nor that of holy orders can be
> "undone."

As I recall, there's such a thing as a conditional baptism.
You're making me wonder whether there's a conditional
ordination in cases where there's some doubt about whether
the wife is really dead.  Of course, if there's much
doubt, I imagine the widower couldn't be ordained, but
what about the case of a shipwreck or plane crash where
it's practically certain that no one survived, but no
bodies were recovered?

Getting back to /Pirate Freedom/, though, obviously
Chris isn't going to tell anyone in the 21st-century
Church about Novia.

Who here wishes Wolfe had included Chris's letter to
Bishop Scully resigning his post?

Jerry Friedman

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