tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907002682841147240.post3036770248546722342..comments2023-10-24T00:39:19.427-07:00Comments on Diaconate Ministry: The clock is ticking... or is it?Rexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16050985148711857877noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907002682841147240.post-49253861605205681472011-01-20T12:13:35.517-08:002011-01-20T12:13:35.517-08:00Hello Dcn Rex. It’s been a while, I hope you are w...Hello Dcn Rex. It’s been a while, I hope you are well.<br /><br />I see that you still will not be dissuaded from a theory that basically ignores the fact that certain words, depending on their context, take on one meaning, while in another they can mean something else. For example, the word “valid” means one thing in logical argumentation, and something else in canon law. You insist on reading the word “therefore” (ideoque) in Canon 277 as if it had the some referent as it has in formal logic. Well, I’ve spent considerable time trying to show you that your formal logical analysis of Canon 277 fails for the simple reason that some words in the canon do not carry the formal logic connotations that you think they do, “therefore” being among them. I won’t repeat all those points.<br /><br />I would be interested to know, though, whether you find accurate my “Four Options” for resolving this question, posted here: http://www.canonlaw.info/a_deacons4.htm, and if so, whether you agree that Western married clergy now find themselves in the fourth category I suggest. If so, are you comfortable with the idea that Western married clergy—through no fault of their own, they were never told—do not even satisfy the mitigated norms for continence in Eastern Churches?<br /><br />Kind regards, edp.<br /><br />ps: Could I ask you to refrain from claiming that my arguments are not just wrong, but “irrational”, and that I am ‘attacking the married diaconate’ in apparent defiance of “the Holy Spirit’s plan for the Church”? I don’t trust myself to avoid replying in kind, and that won’t get us anywhere.Dr. Edward Petershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18400623522845906237noreply@blogger.com