This was another emphatic message from Minny.  Just a total ass kicking, and Denver doesn't seem to have any answers. 

Actually this exact topic has been discussed before on Scoop. I don’t have the time, energy or inclination to look for it, but it has.

Don’t recall it. But if it has, it’s an absurd argument.

I hate that Buzz left Wojo a bear cupboard in year 6 though.

Phenomenal half by the Wolves. 

When I asked how Protestant churches handle it, it was basically a rhetorical question.

My point is that nearly every other major organized religion allows their clergy to marry and have families, so it is definitely doable.

And just because their is a huge, arcane hierarchy to support currently in the Catholic church, it doesn't mean it has to stay that way.  I don't recall Jesus commanding his apostles to set it up like that.  But it probably won't change.

It will change when the priest shortage become so acute that the church becomes nonexistent in some areas.

Probably not in our lifetime, but it will happen.

They've paid the price, and tens of thousands of innocents have as well.  The hostages that Hamas took months ago, are most likely dead.  They'd give them back in a heartbeat if they could, but they can't. 

All wars eventually end in peace.  There is no 'winning' for either side without a cessation of the horrific violence.

We'll disagree on Hamas having paid the price. I am sad about the innocents on both sides that have died or been injured. Aren't you?