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Catholic Church Considers Ordaining Married Men As Priests by Nkemakonam62: 11:08am On Mar 10, 2017
Pope Francis said in an interview published on Thursday that the church may consider ordaining married men who could potentially then work in remote areas faced with a shortage of priests.

“We must think about whether viri probati are a possibility,” Francis said referring to older, married men who are already involved in church business. “Then we have to decide what tasks they can take on, for example in remote communities,” he added in the interview with German weekly Die Zeit.

Many in the church believe, given the lack of priests in many places, that a new path to ordination should be opened. They think that in addition to priests who take a vow of celibacy, older, married men with a long commitment to the church could also be considered.

Pope Francis said in May 2014 that “there are married priests in the Church” citing married Anglican ministers who joined the Catholic Church, Coptic Catholics and the priests of some Eastern churches.

The church, and notably the current pope’s predecessor Benedict XVI, had previously said that celibacy was not a matter of inflexible church dogma unlike, for example, the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Re: Catholic Church Considers Ordaining Married Men As Priests by SUPOL(m): 11:11am On Mar 10, 2017
Better than doing it with sisters n with seminarians
Re: Catholic Church Considers Ordaining Married Men As Priests by orisa37: 11:12am On Mar 10, 2017
Very good. God has heard their Prayers.
Re: Catholic Church Considers Ordaining Married Men As Priests by orisa37: 11:22am On Mar 10, 2017
So they can stop fxxking themselves.
Re: Catholic Church Considers Ordaining Married Men As Priests by jmichlins(m): 1:49pm On Mar 10, 2017
I will become a priest once that happens

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