Lesbian Catholic school teacher fired after mother's death because obit listed her partner

[georges641]

95. I don't believe Anglicans have valid apostolic succession.

I haven't been able to find anything about the 4th Lateran Council regarding women wearing men's clothes. Could you please cite an excerpt including some context so I can address this?

I don't know enough about the Joan of Arc case to comment, but that she was burned because of wearing men's clothes is a new one for me. Regardless, an abuse by a Church official is in no way an excuse for someone to make up his own doctrine or ignore established Church doctrine.

There will never be a time when the Catholic Church will proclaim that sexual contact outside of a sacramental marriage is not a sin, and it will never proclaim that there can be any other sacramental marriage than between a man and a woman. Besides, none of us are smarter and better than the popes and the teachings of the Church. Even if reversals were possible, which they are not, it is not up to us to rebel and do those things which we desire because they feel good to us.

What we eat on Fridays is not Church doctrine. That is DISCIPLINE which can come and go, and it still is a sin, btw, to eat mean on Fridays during Lent. That men must be unmarried to be a priest in the Latin rite of the Church is a discipline which could be changed. If it were changed, it would not be a doctrinal change.

Are you implying that there is a canonized saint who defied Church teaching about sexual morality and was in what the Church would consider a sinful relationship?

Check out this thread regarding apostolic succession of Anglican Church:
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=712769