What Religion is Book?
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Time for this Practicing Catholic to shed some light on the concept of celibacy in the church.
The Catholic church proper(The Catholic Church as led by our Holy Father Pope John Paul II) is comprised up of 27 distinct Rites with the "Roman rite" being the largest, the Priests in the Roman Rite cannot marry no matter what order; Jesuit, Dominican, Franciscan, etc. None of the priests can marry....
With the EXCEPTION of those priests who were Anglican at one point and Came back to the Holy See, those former Anglican Priests that chose to remain priests and that already have families may stay married and stay a priest, so Yes the Roman Rite does have a handful of married Priests.
Now there is also the Eastern Rites, still under the Pope, these are Rites that at some point broke away from their Orthodox Patriarchs and rejoined the Family of Catholics.
A few of these rites are....
Byzantine Rite, Armenian Rite, Ukranian Rite etc.
These priests can marry as long as their were married before they became a Deacon.
Now the Rites of the East are just as Catholic as the Western Roman Rite, and any Catholic can receive communion in any Church under the Vatican.
So, I can give confession and receive communion at a Byzantine Catholic Church and Byzantine Catholics can go to Roman Rite Churches and do the same.
You can also Change rites once in your life with the permission from your Bishop, but this is frowned upon.
The Differences between the rites vary, but you will find that Eastern Catholic Churches tend to look and feel more Orthodox.
My Godfather is a Eastern Catholic Priest and I can say that the differences are only asthetic, the loyality to the Holy Father and the legitimacy of the Mass is what is important.
So in short, Yes some Catholic Priests can marry, just not the Roman Rite Priests, but they can if they used to be Anglican Priests...lol....confusing?
Hope this clears up...somethin'
~SBC
P.S. I think Book is part of some kind of New Christianity as well, blending elements of all kinds.
However in the script for Serenity doesn't Book go up to a ship and as the man says "No Catholics or Asians" he leaves and heads toward Serenity.
It wasn't in the final cut, and I don't think it was even filmed, but I do remember reading that scene.
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Originally posted by ScottishBrownCoat:
However in the script for Serenity doesn't Book go up to a ship and as the man says "No Catholics or Asians" he leaves and heads toward Serenity.
It wasn't in the final cut, and I don't think it was even filmed, but I do remember reading that scene.
You are correct, it is in the shooting script:
BOOK
I'm not a grandpa.
The guy just looks at him like he's crazy, let's him move on past the
next barker, MAN #2. The guy is fancy, with people gathered around --
his ship is clearly high class.
MAN #2
-- three berths left, junior suites,
we are not interested in Asian or
Catholic passengers, thank you, we
will be bidding for the last three
berths --
Also in the shooting script, as well as the original unaired version of Serenity, Book tells Inara he is Christian:
BOOK
Ma'am, I'm sorry to tell you that I
have no interest in your body, or
what you do with it. It's true, I'm
a Christian, and we don't exactly
celebrate the flesh trade, but that's
your business. It's perfectly legal.
And I'm beginning to suspect it's the
only business on this boat that is.
Are you an official Browncoat? If not, go sign up gorram it! http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/?u=rhuttner
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a Christian of an unknown denomination, a US Pope now but I would assume the corrupted perverted expansionist Catholics are still around... Book might be Ex-Something but still a Man of 'Faith'
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