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No, I haven't seen Passion of the Christ. I also heard that it is violent so it doesn't appeal to me. It did bring some people to Christ so I guess it had value, but I personally find the violent and sexually graphic nature of films of today distasteful.
I forgot that some priests in the RC can be married, that is true. The RC is careful to maintain that celibacy of the clergy in general isn't doctrine but practise and may change.
The RC maintains that women shouldn't be ordained, as do some fundamentalist protestants, but that isn't really consistent with Scripture. Paul does say that women should be silent in churches, but what he most likely meant was that they shouldn't gossip, interrupt the sermons and so forth. He refers to Phoebe, a woman church leader in another part of the NT, in Acts of the Apostles, Peter says that women aswell as men will preach the word of God, and there is some obscure reference to a "lady" in John 2 who might have been leader of that particular church.
Paul says we are all equal in Christ, which goes for men, women and all nationalities, so those who use Paul to keep women from being priests are somewhat contradictory.
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