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Title: Pope Francis requests Roman Catholic priests be given the right to get married
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Yahoo News UK
URL Source: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/pope-fran ... ght-get-married-163603054.html
Published: Nov 3, 2017
Author: Matilda Long
Post Date: 2017-11-03 19:23:06 by Hondo68
Keywords: experimental, preliminary phas, confined to Brazil, married Anglican vicars
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Comments: 2
Pope Francis has requested that Roman Catholic priests be given the right to get married. The request applies to priests in Brazil, and is on the agenda for an upcoming synod (church council) in the Amazon region. The controversial move would address the critical shortage of men joining the priesthood – but is likely to drive divisions through the church by enraging conservative factions. A small number of married Roman Catholic priests already exist, including previously married Anglican vicars who have joined the church. Derry priest Father Paddy O’Kane suggested that Pope Francis may move to end celibacy earlier this month, saying there was support amongst the church for the idea. Fr O’Kane cited Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff, who said: “The Brazilian bishops, especially the pope’s own personal friend Cardinal Claudio Hummes, have expressly requested Pope Francis to enable married priest in Brazil to return to pastoral ministry. “I have recently heard that the pope wants to fulfil this request – as an experimental, preliminary phase for the moment confined to Brazil.” Earlier this year the Pope told Die Zeit newspaper: ‘We must consider if ‘viri probati’ is a possibility. Then we must determine what tasks they can perform, for example, in remote communities.’ Francis and his predecessor Benedict XVI have both stated that celibacy is not a matter of inflexible church dogma unlike, and could be debated. Poster Comment: How do Brazilian Anglicans define marriage, man & woman, same sex, polygamy, other?
Pope Francis celebrates a Mass. (Reuters/Remo Casilli)
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
The Vatican sure screwed up when they made him a Pope.
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
This news are distorted. Not priest to get married but married men to become priests. Like it was always in Eastern Church since Apostolic times. Look up NT "man of one wife"
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